Subject: Re: [drugwar] FW: Re: Bush Agency Pushes Ruthless Speech Restrictions Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 14:45:27 -0400 To: From: Bob Armstrong See , eg : http://www.samizdata.net/blog/archives/005176.html >=A0Today, the US Supreme Court issued a decision that will live in= infamy. It upheld the core provisions of the McCain-Feingold= campaign finance law. >=A0I confess I have not yet digested the full 300 page turd= dropped on the Constitution by our masters at the Supreme Court,= but I would observe that >=A0any decision of this length is bound to be flawed. It does not= take many words to apply the simple phrase "Congress shall make= no law . . . >=A0abridging the freedom of speech" to overturn legislation; it= does, however, take many, many words to obfuscate the meaning of= that phrase >=A0sufficiently to uphold legislation that, in part, prohibits the= airing of campaign commercials in the weeks before an election. Apparently it was Stevens , not Souter who wrote: "Money is property. It is not speech.". -- On Wed, 7 Apr 2004 14:18:52 -0400, Bob Armstrong wrote: >=A0The entire FEC is about suppression of political speech and a= lot >=A0if the rational is based on , I believe it is Souter's ,= economically >=A0ignorant contention that `money isn't `speech , it's `assets . --=A0 =A0Bob Armstrong -- http://CoSy.com -- 212-285-1864 Pix+ : .CoSy.MidWinterParty 17 =A0:= http://cosy.com/y04/MidWinter17.htm Computing Environment : =A0http://CoSy.com/CoSy/ A WTC vision : http://CoSy.com/CoSy/ConicAllConnect/ Libertarian Presidential Candidates =A0:= http://CoSy.com/Liberty.htm Restore our Right to Relax : =A0http://ny.lp.org/cgi-bin/petition.cgi?Against_the_Smoking_Ban =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A04/7/2004 2:37:04 PM