{"id":20874,"date":"2016-04-08T11:41:48","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T15:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=20874"},"modified":"2022-01-14T06:15:46","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T11:15:46","slug":"democrats-try-to-suppress-free-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=20874","title":{"rendered":"Democrats try to suppress free speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good day all. This is almost a standing headline these days. In this case, it was the three Democrat members of the Federal Election Commission who decided that any conservative speech must be suppressed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/constitution-Void-where-prohibited-by-Obama.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10616\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10616\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/constitution-Void-where-prohibited-by-Obama.jpg?resize=300%2C235\" alt=\"constitution, Void where prohibited by Obama\" width=\"300\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/constitution-Void-where-prohibited-by-Obama.jpg?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/constitution-Void-where-prohibited-by-Obama.jpg?resize=150%2C117&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The FEC is split between three Democrat and three Republican members. The Democrats on the commission have been living up to their designation as Progressive Liberal Fascist Democrats, in this case trying to suppress an anti-Obama film. Here are the details from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/dems-on-fec-target-conservatives-vote-to-punish-maker-of-anti-obama-movie\/article\/2587898\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Examiner<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><b>The three Democrats on the Federal Election Commission, in their latest and boldest move to regulate conservative media, voted in unison to punish a movie maker critical of President Obama after he distributed for free his latest work, <\/b><em><b>Dreams of My Real Father: A Story of Reds and Deception.<\/b><\/em><b> <\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><b>Filmmaker Joel Gilbert, owner of Highway 61 films, has produced several independent politically-themed movies and sent <\/b><em><b>Dreams<\/b><\/em><b> out to millions of voters in key swing states prior to the 2012 election. <\/b><\/p>\n<p>2012? And they are trying to do this now, when Der Fubar\u2019s term is almost up?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><b>While he acted on his own, and with no ties to political groups or parties, <a href=\"http:\/\/eqs.fec.gov\/eqsdocsMUR\/16044386930.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an FEC complaint<\/a> was filed claiming he violated reporting rules, prompting him to seek the standard media &#8220;exemption.&#8221; <\/b><\/p>\n<p>First of all, why would anyone need to get an \u201cExemption?\u201d Why should anyone, from either side of the political spectrum require permission from some bureaucrat to exercise his or her Constitutional rights? Doesn\u2019t that bring up the problems of censorship and favoritism? Apparently so.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><b>But despite giving the same exemption to liberal movie makers like Michael Moore and Daily Kos, the Democrats recently voted against Gilbert in a February action, reviving their bid to <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20170307201356\/http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/article\/2564287\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">punish conservative media,<\/a> a campaign initially targeting online news outlets like the Drudge Report. <\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/hilter-salute.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6695\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6695\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/hilter-salute-300x187.jpg?resize=300%2C187\" alt=\"hilter salute\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/hilter-salute.jpg?resize=300%2C187&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/hilter-salute.jpg?resize=150%2C93&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/hilter-salute.jpg?resize=400%2C250&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/hilter-salute.jpg?w=460&amp;ssl=1 460w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scratch a Liberal Democrat and get a closet totalitarian. (Nazi, Communist, what\u2019s the difference?) It looks like they want to turn the Federal Election Commission, which should ONLY be making sure that elections are fair and honest, into the new \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ministries_of_Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Ministry_of_Truth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ministry of Truth.<\/a>\u201d The good news is that the FEC is intentionally split between Republican and <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\"><i>Totalitarian<\/i><\/span> Democrat, so the tie vote ended the attempts to suppress Gilbert\u2019s movie.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><b>Lucky for Gilbert, the three Republicans on the FEC also united to vote to give him the exemption. The <a href=\"http:\/\/eqs.fec.gov\/eqsdocsMUR\/16044386948.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tie vote blocked any action,<\/a> and was followed by a unanimous 6-0 vote to close the file. Had he lost, Gilbert would have been required to report who helped fund the anti-Obama movie. <\/b><\/p>\n<p>I have a feeling that Gilbert would have taken this right to the supreme court. Those totalitarian thugs on the FEC have been trying to shut down any dissenting speech for a while now.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><b>The latest Democratic move on conservatives comes as some Democrats in Congress, and liberal publications, are pushing to end the even split between Democrats and Republicans on the FEC, a move conservatives have warned would lead to punishing new rules on right-leaning media and candidates. <\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><b>Republican Commissioner Lee E. Goodman has been warning about the assault on conservative media for three years and said the vote on Gilbert showed that the Democrats are still focused on right-leaning media. <\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><b>&#8220;Freedom of the press isn&#8217;t so free when three government commissars vote to punish a filmmaker for distributing a documentary film,&#8221; he told Secrets. <\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><b>&#8220;Conservative documentary films have faced tough sledding at the FEC, no matter how the films are distributed,&#8221; Goodman said, adding, &#8220;It&#8217;s chilling.&#8221; <\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/constitution-burning.jpeg.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9980\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9980\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/constitution-burning.jpeg-300x199.jpg?resize=300%2C199\" alt=\"constitution-burning.jpeg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/constitution-burning.jpeg.jpg?resize=300%2C199&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/constitution-burning.jpeg.jpg?resize=150%2C99&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/constitution-burning.jpeg.jpg?resize=400%2C265&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/constitution-burning.jpeg.jpg?w=650&amp;ssl=1 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That is the intent of course. The PLFD\u2019s goal is to move the United States from a Constitutional Republic to a single party state and have been working on it for a century. As far as I\u2019m concerned, the Federal Election Commission needs to be either disbanded or seriously restricted and overhauled. The Progressive Liberals know that the majority of people do not subscribe to their idiocies, and they will do anything to impose their views, and suppress other views, up to and including outright suppression of the 1<sup>st<\/sup> Amendment.<\/p>\n<p>Thatisall<\/p>\n<p><i><b>~The Angry Webmaster~<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p>[yasr_visitor_votes size=&#8221;medium&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good day all. This is almost a standing headline these days. In this case, it was the three Democrat members of the Federal Election Commission who decided that any conservative speech must be suppressed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,37,71,8,115,219,35],"tags":[11,52,224,12,5,17,90,101,23,27],"class_list":["post-20874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-liberty-politics","category-news-of-the-day","category-politics","category-stupidity-crime","category-the-good-idea-fairy","category-tyranny","tag-america","tag-constitution","tag-free-speech","tag-freedom","tag-history","tag-liberty","tag-moonbattery","tag-news","tag-slavery","tag-totalitarianism"],"views":731,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":21576,"url":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=21576","url_meta":{"origin":20874,"position":0},"title":"Democrats on FEC do it again","author":"Angry Webmaster","date":"June 30, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Good day all. 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In this case, it is the Federal Election Commission once again trying to suppress free speech on the internet.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;liberty&quot;","block_context":{"text":"liberty","link":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?cat=37"},"img":{"alt_text":"constitution-burning.jpeg","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/constitution-burning.jpeg-300x199.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":14907,"url":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=14907","url_meta":{"origin":20874,"position":3},"title":"For liberals, the debate is over","author":"Angry Webmaster","date":"May 11, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Good day all. I was wondering around the deepest, darkest parts of the internet when I came across this video from Truth Revolt. 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