Ready to Defy the FEC and FCC

With Obama attempting to use the FCC to cram “net neutrality” – which is just a ruse by the totalitarians to control online speech; they must control all the things – down our throats and with the Federal Election-Rigging Commission (FEC) considering (again) regulating (conservative) blogs, Patterico has revived the Patterico Free Speech pledge:

If the FEC makes rules that limit my First Amendment right to express my opinion on core political issues, I will not obey those rules.

Well I am taking that pledge here and now.  Further, if the FEC comes knocking concerning this blog and my online presence, I will tell them two things:

1. Go read the 1^st Amendment and the rest of the Constitution for that matter.

2. Go . . . do something I will not print here . . . But get off MY property first.

And if that subjects me to arrest . . . well Patterico says it well:

If we actually reach the point where my engaging in such core political speech might subject me to arrest . . . then I’ll make sure that television cameras are there to watch the authorities slap on the cuffs.

There comes a time to tell tyrants to . . . do something I will not print here.  

We are very close to that time.

UPDATE: FCC Backs Off (for now)

I am heartened to see that the FCC got such an earful on their plan to pressure news outlets away from any subversive conservative bias that they have backed off . . . for now at least.

But that not before Michael Graham told them quite clearly what they could do with their pointed questions.

I wish the rest of the news media had his backbone.  I wish.

10th Anniversary: I warned you

Some may have think I have been overwrought and maybe a bit nutty when I warned again and again and again about Obama’s totalitarian streak.  Maybe I’ve lost readers over it.  So be it.  Events, all too sadly, keep proving me right.  (And I expect at a later time to explain why I’ve spent so much space warning about Obama.)

Yet I have to admit even I was shocked to read what the FCC is up to.  It is planning to pressure news outlets to avoid conservative bias – with emphasis on conservative.  Rest assured MSNBC is not being targeted.

I defer to Ace for the details and share his disquietude:

But we are witnessing here the government -- the government! -- actively seeking to create a hostile and frightening legal environment for anyone who disagrees with the leftist cause.

They are basically putting people on notice that there is a "right" way to report the news, and a "wrong" way, and the right way will let you keep your broadcasting license, and the wrong way might just lose it for you.

This is so breathtakingly unconstitutional I don't know quite what to say.

In case one thinks us alarmist, one of the FCC Commissioners has sounded the alarm as well.

But that’s not all from the Obama Regime.  His Treasury Department is trying to make it virtually illegal to take Fed government policy, namely Obamacare, into account when making decisions about hiring:

Some lawmakers, though, have claimed that the mere threat of the employer mandate is causing companies to shed full-time workers in the hope of keeping their staff size below 50 and avoiding the requirement.

Administration officials dispute that this is happening on any large scale. Further, Treasury officials said Monday that businesses will be told to “certify” that they are not shedding full-time workers simply to avoid the mandate. Officials said employers will be told to sign a “self-attestation” on their tax forms affirming this, under penalty of perjury.

Of course, Treasury has no legitimate authority to do this.  But who needs legitimate authority when you have THE DEAR LEADER!!

Sorry.  The idolatry of the OBAMA! can be so infectious.  Totalitarianism can be that way.

Anyway, this is yet another step in businesspeople becoming slaves of the state.  And if you are not allowed to take prudent measures to adjust to government taxes and regulations, that is exactly what you are.  Get used to it, serfs.

And, again, you cannot say I did not warn you about this sort of totalitarian grove thing.  No one can say this blogger did not do his duty.

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By the way, today is the 10th Anniversary of this blog.  Wish I had a happier post for you.  Oh well.