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And how prophetic he was!
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Subject: [pnews-views] FW: Congress wants reports filed on citizens who use
grassroots organizations to communicate with their elected representatives
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> This should be of concern to anyone who supports any cause.
>
> Skywolf.
>
> On Nov. 21, 1864 President Abraham Lincoln wrote a letter to Colonel
> William
> F. Elkins.
>
>
>
> He wrote "I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me
> and
> causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. As a result of the war,
> corporations have been enthroned, and an era of corruption in high places
> will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong
> its
> reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is
> aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed. I feel at this
> moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even in
> the midst of war."
>
>
>
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>
> Subject: Congress wants reports filed on citizens who use grassroots
> organizations to communicate with their elected representatives
>
>
>
> Please read the very important info below!
>
>
>
>
> <http://www.freemarketnews.com/Analysis/64/4127/2006-03-15.asp?wid=64&nid=41
> 27>
> http://www.freemarketnews.com/Analysis/64/4127/2006-03-15.asp?wid=64&nid=412
> 7
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>
>
>
> SHOULD CONGRESS SERVE OR RULE?
>
> Wednesday, March 15, 2006
>
> What would happen if you required your boss to tell you all the people he
> or
> she deals with before you would take instructions about how to do your
> job?
> You'd be fired on the spot.
>
> Well, Congress is doing exactly that. Congress wants reports filed on
> citizens who use grassroots organizations to communicate with their
> elected
> representatives.
>
> But doesn't Congress work for you? Shouldn't you be able to use grassroots
> organizations like DownsizeDC.org, Gun Owners of America, AARP, or the
> Marijuana Policy Project, to communicate your desires to YOUR
> representatives? Shouldn't you be able to issue instructions to YOUR
> public
> servants without them placing burdens on how you do that?
>
> Congress wants every grassroots lobbying organization to file reports with
> the government. Reports about you! Reports about who you are, what your
> business interests are, and how much money you contribute. But shouldn't
> it
> be the other way around? Shouldn't Congress, and all the people who work
> for
> Congress, be the ones who are filing reports (available to YOU) about how
> they spend their time, who they meet with, who writes the bills they
> sponsor, and who buys them meals and pays for their travel?
>
> The Lobbying Reform Act, currently pending in Congress, has it exactly
> backwards. Congress wants to exploit the recent Jack Abramoff and Duke
> Cunningham scandals, involving wrong-doing by people in Congress -- not
> wrong-doing by YOU -- to regulate how you communicate with your public
> servants.
>
> This is how Congress operates. Congress does something wrong, and then
> exploits its own bad behavior to regulate not itself, but the people it is
> supposed to serve. Congress wants to rule rather than serve. The Lobbying
> Reform Act would make you, the boss, submit to Congress, rather than the
> other way around. But it gets worse ...
>
> Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist has taken the Lobbying Reform Act -- a
> very bad bill -- and combined it with a very good bill that we support --
> the Online Freedom of Speech Act. The Online Freedom of Speech Act would
> preserve the First Amendment's "Freedom of the Press" for individuals.
> "Freedom of the press" is a right that belongs to all of us, not just big
> establishment media corporations. The Online Freedom of Speech Act would
> place blogs and websites on the same legal footing as the mainstream
> media.
> It would give them the same protection from the incumbent-protection laws
> (otherwise known as campaign finance regulations), that the New York Times
> enjoys.
>
> Combining these two bills is a really despicable move by Senator Frist.
> Here's why ...
>
> The Online Freedom of Speech Act probably has enough support to pass on
> its
> own -- thanks largely to the work of the very grassroots lobbying
> organizations Congress wants to strangle with the so-called Lobbying
> Reform
> Act. But the Online Freedom of Speech Act has nothing to do with the
> Lobbying Reform Act. It should be voted on separately.
>
> This is a typical Congressional con game. Congress constantly combines
> good
> bills with bad bills to give the American people a raw deal. This is how
> Congressional leaders manipulate things to rule rather than serve. Don't
> let
> them get away with it.
>
> Please use DownsizeDC.org's quick-and-easy online citizen's lobbying
> system
> to send a message to your supposed public servants in Congress. Tell them
> to
> separate the Online Freedom of Speech Act from the so-called Lobbying
> Reform
> Act. Tell them to vote on each bill separately. Tell them to pass the
> Online
> Freedom of Speech Act, and reject the so-called Lobbying Reform Act. You
> can
> do so by clicking here:
>
> <http://action.downsizedc.org/wyc.php?cid=43>
> http://action.downsizedc.org/wyc.php?cid=43
>
>
> _____
>
> <http://action.downsizedc.org/wyc.php?cid=43>
> http://action.downsizedc.org/wyc.php?cid=43
>
>
>
> 2006-Mar-12
>
>
> Good bill + bad bill = raw deal
>
>
> The Lobbying Reform Act threatens the existence of organizations like
> DownsizeDC.org. If it passes it will force us to spend massive amounts of
> money that we do not have to file reports with the government. Reports
> about
> who are supporters are, the legislation they care about, and the money
> they
> contribute to us. This would greatly limit our effectiveness.
>
> Why shouldn't the politicians have to file these reports instead of us?
> Grassroots lobbying organizations like ours have no power to confer
> government favors. Only Congress can do that. So why shouldn't the members
> of Congress, and their staffs, have to report to us who they're meeting
> and
> dining and traveling with? Why is that when someone in Congress does
> something wrong! new regulations are always imposed on the people, and
> never on Congress? The Lobbying Reform Act is bad, bad, bad.
>
> And it's equally bad that Congress constantly combines totally unrelated
> legislation. The Online Freedom of Speech Act is a good bill. But the good
> that it would do is totally counteracted if it passes in combination with
> the Lobbying Reform Act.
>
> <http://action.downsizedc.org/wyc.php?cid=43>
> http://action.downsizedc.org/wyc.php?cid=43
>
>
>
>
>
> <http://presence.mail.netscape.com/IM/?sn=randalltbrush>
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> **
> Marijuana is Medicine
>
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