The FEC shrugs...

Posted by MinorLiberator 9 years ago to Politics
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First, apologies for using an exalted term in connection with a Federal bureaucracy. But sarcasm and irony intended.

Interesting article. I wish more agencies would 'fess up and say they just can't do their jobs. (Fat chance, I know).

But if they've given up on trying to control free speech by controlling campaign spending, that's good news to me.

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  • Posted by $ blarman 9 years ago
    To me, this is justification to drop the whole agency. And I'd follow that up with several more and just keep going!
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  • Posted by Zenphamy 9 years ago
    This is a site about Objectivism, Ayn Rand, and fans of Atlas Shrugged. If the government only did those things that a proper government did, (protect the individual rights of all citizens) including in this instance, the prosecution of fraud and coercion, then this issue wouldn't exist.
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  • Posted by $ jdg 9 years ago
    While it's good that they've admitted to their failure, we should treat it as an opportunity to insist that Congress abolish the agency and the laws it enforces. Because laws that can't possibly be enforced all the time, but are left in place, will inevitably be enforced selectively, and that means the "enemies list" of whoever is in power will be the targets. That is the polar opposite of the rule of law.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years ago in reply to this comment.
    i agree with you. I just don't agree with the left wingers using their money to crap on my lawn. And just what IS the message? Same old crap on my lawn starting getting rid of what shreds of the bill of rights they didn't catch the last time around.

    When you can't use reason just buy your way into power. Which is another point where I agree with you, it worked didn't it?
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  • Posted by $ WilliamShipley 9 years ago in reply to this comment.
    I disagree with you. Spending is speech, if you didn't think that it helped to get the message out you wouldn't worry about it.

    The government should not be deciding who is entitled to speak on a subject.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years ago
    Uncontrolled campaign spending is the antithesis of free speech. But since I have no interest in anything the left wing fascists of the Government Party have to say let them spend until they go broke,

    I never going to vote for evil lesser or greater assuming that soon to be archaic historical memory of a system is still a Freedom In Name Only.

    Republican or Democrat I'm going to vote for the Constitution and turn my back on.

    Why would a government bureaucracy 'fess up? Because they want more money to expand the choke hold they have on the nation. If it works for one they will all soon be in line except those being down sized by by the left out of nothing more than a healthy dose of well deserved fear.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 9 years ago
    When agencies are asked to come clean, all we usually get is a song and dance without any viable information. I'm not sure that Ms. Ravel meant for her comments to be much more than an apology and a threat. At least she kept the song and dropped the dance. You might call it, "Ravel's Bolero."
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  • Posted by kevinw 9 years ago
    From the article; "the lines drawn by campaign finance laws have become blurred and bent"

    This is the nature of any laws allowing the government to overstep its bounds.They cannot be grounded in reality.

    Sounds like we're being set up for some hand picked enforcement with the excuse that "we just couldn't get to them all".
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  • Posted by Mamaemma 9 years ago
    I will take getting the information out to the public over enforcement any day.
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