Upturned Earth

“… to think clearly is a necessary first step toward political regeneration.” – George Orwell

May 11, 2009 • 8:23 pm

“It’s only logical that if we can prevent advertisements from being run, we can prevent all kinds of speech.”

I’d really love to see what defenders of campaign finance reform can find to say in their defense after watching this:

Filed under: civil liberties, media/culture, politics

5 Responses - Comments are closed.

  1. Freddie says:
    May 11, 2009 at 8:46 pm

    Uh, how about “It sucks to live in a plutocracy”?

    • John Schwenkler says:
      May 11, 2009 at 9:06 pm

      From which it follows that the federal government is entitled to ban pay-per-view television programs … how exactly?

      • Freddie says:
        May 11, 2009 at 9:27 pm

        Oh, they’re not, of course. This law sucks. But the fact that we have so much influence peddling and quid pro quo in our system sucks as well, and I’d have liked to have seen that at least acknowledged.

      • John Schwenkler says:
        May 11, 2009 at 9:39 pm

        I’ll gladly acknowledge that. But restricting political speech isn’t the way to solve it – and indeed, the CFR restrictions we got are arguably as good an example of “influence peddling and quid pro quo” as you could ask for.

  2. the campaign finance law we have sucks only a little more than the alternative | The League of Ordinary Gentlemen says:
    May 11, 2009 at 9:52 pm

    [...] John Schwenkler, via Rodney Balko, approves of this video from the Cato Institute. [...]

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