Dems Squelching Free Speech, Senate Bill 1, Sec. 220 cont.
See update on later posts... Sec. 220 defeated!
FINALLY: the MSM is following-up on this anti-grassroots lobbying putsch by the Dems, agreeing totally with our analysis, the Washington Times (in our sidebar) warns ministers and even bloggers may well come under the law's requirements and penalties: add it up... McCain-Feingold, the Fairness Doctrine, all the men in black boots coming soon to a computer terminal near you!In addition to this update: American Center for Law and Justice finally mobilizing information and petition effort!!!
See also another WND article with serious analysis of the dangers Sec. 220 poses here...
I pass along this urgent information and notice from "Feminists for Life," as other groups are waking up and mobilizing to thwart Harry Reid's and Nancy Pelosi's putsch against pro-life, pro-family, pro-faith, pro-America groups who dare to tell people what Congress is up to and to ask people to contact their reps to let their voice be heard! How DARE we???
See my earlier post denouncing this thinly veiled attack on your rights!
There is an amendment being debated TODAY, the Bennett amendment which will remove Sec. 220... Contact your reps! Info and link below...
Track action on this bill here...
You can email your Senators here, with this AFA service, put in your zip code and it does the rest!
Look, I don't know about you, but I rely on groups like AFA, AV, PRI, ACLJ, FOF, FFL, FRI, etc., to bring information to me on legislative and regulatory initiatives that affect family, life, faith, immigration and national security issues--and to facilitate my right to PETITION the government! Liberals wanna call this ASTROTURF lobbying versus "grassroots" which is pure nonsense. The world works with physical stuff, not in Liberal dream worlds...
Liberals don't care much about this? Why, you ask? Doesn't that prove it's not a real threat to our liberty?
NO! Duh! Libs don't need special organizations to get out the word on issues that concern them... they have the NEW YORK TIMES and the whole media establishment to alert them (and our nation's enemies) on every little nit and nat that they care about!!! Double Duh!
Act now, or forever hold your peace!
From FFL:
In reaction to the lobbying scandals of the past several years associated with Jack Abramoff and others, the U.S. Senate is seriously considering lobbying reform legislation (S.1).
But within the 56-page measure are sweeping new restrictions on free speech regarding what is going on in Congress.
Section 220 of the bill would for the first time restrict and regulate paid efforts to stimulate "grassroots lobbying." Section 220 defines "grassroots lobbying" as follows: "The term ‘grassroots lobbying’ means the voluntary efforts of members of the general public to communicate their own views on an issue to Federal officials or to encourage other members of the general public to do the same."
This provision would have a chilling, if not freezing, effect on grassroots organizations like Feminists for Life – and your right to be informed about what is going on in Congress.
Senator Robert Bennett (R-UT) has offered BENNETT AMENDMENT No. 20 to Senate Bill 1. The BENNETT AMENDMENT removes the most dangerous section of S.1 by striking Section 220 entirely from the bill. (The reporting requirements and fines included in Section 220 are listed below.)
Feminists for Life joins National Right to Life Committee and other advocacy groups in strongly supporting the BENNETT AMENDMENT No. 20.
The vote on the BENNETT AMENDMENT will likely be today—Wednesday, January 17th. Discussion on the floor has just begun!
| Please contact your |
Don’t let anyone take away our right to advocate on behalf of women and children. Thank you.
Because women deserve better,
Serrin M. Foster
President
Feminists for Life of
www.feministsforlife.org
SPECIFICS OF Section 220—WHICH WOULD BE REMOVED BY THE BENNET AMENDMENT:
-- Under Section 220 of S. 1, anyone who is paid anything by an organization that spends any money at all to encourage more than 500 members of the general public to communicate with members of Congress, if he or she also has contacted congressional offices directly as few as two times, and has spent as little as 20% of his or her time on such direct lobbying and grassroots-motivating activities, would be required to register with Congress and file detailed quarterly reports, including information regarding donors to the organizations under some circumstances.
-- In addition, any such individual who is paid by an organization or organizations spending more than $25,000 in a three-month period on "paid efforts to stimulate grassroots lobbying" would also be required to register and report expenditures as a "grassroots lobbying firm."
-- Violation of the bill's requirements would be punishable by a civil fine of up to $200,000 per infraction. "Corrupt" violations would also be punishable by up to 10 years in federal prison (whether a given violation was deemed "corrupt" would be initially determined by a
PLEASE JOIN FEMINISTS FOR LIFE IN SUPPORTING THE BENNETT AMENDMENT.
CONTACT YOUR SENATORS TODAY. THANK YOU!
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