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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (148792)5/25/2001 2:16:43 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
Pat, from my NRA magazine, so you can see how nutty they are.

The penalty section of S.27 delegates broad powers to the US Sentencing Comm. to create new "guidelines" to provide sentencing enhancements and to stress the "serious nature of such violations and the need for aggressive and appropriate law enforcement action to prevent such violations." Note that it doesn't say "punish violations", it says "prevent violations."

Except for criminal penalties, the McCain Feingold stricture on expenditure of funds that affect political speech is identical in concept and intent to federal campaign laws that the USSC declared unconstitutional in 1976. That case--Buckley v. Valeo (424 U.S. at 1) --has been cited in at least 20 lower court decisions upholding the principle of free political speech is essential to free speech itself. Buckley declared that laws regulating money spent for "issue advocacy" served to "prohibit all individuals who are neither candidates nor owners of institutional press facilities, from voicing their views." The language struck down by Buckley was virtually identical to McCain-Feingold.

The irony of ironies in the mess that McCain has dumped on the American people is that he admits what he wants to fix may not even be broken, referring to what he calls "the abundant evidence of at least the appearance of corruption".

In his opening statement for the long floor debate, McCain said, "Do I believe that any law will prove effective over time?" "No, I do not."

The McCain-Feingold Bill: Putting a Muzzle on the First Amendment by James O.E. Norell "America's First Freedom" June, 2001
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