Posted by
Always To The Right on Thursday, January 21, 2010 6:04:09 PM
At least they’re advocating the use of the only legitimate mechanism to allow the government to regulate political speech
Mark Tapscott that they’ve finally admitted that they have some disdain for the Constitution
Madison knew that making the government the arbiter of acceptable
political speech meant one thing: a government that would protect its
own interests. When the law-enforcement capabilities of the federal
government get applied to determining the legitimacy of both the speech
and the speaker, free political speech is at an end, and with it
political dissent, free elections, and liberty. None of the ills that
Public Citizen proposes to solve with this approach compares to the
disastrous results we will see when free speech gets controlled by the
government that free speech itself was intended to limit and hold
accountable.
In other words, Nader and Public Citizen couldn’t shine Madison’s shoes.