After years of helping hide Albany corruption, a band of loose-cannon bureaucrats has taken on a new mission: “regulating” the First Amendment.The state Joint Commission on Public Ethics just passed an absurd rule ordering anyone paid to talk to editorial boards about public issues to register in Albany as a lobbyist.
“Any attempt by a consultant to induce a third-party — whether the public or the press — to deliver the client’s lobbying message to a public official would constitute lobbying,” says the new JCOPE rule.
Specifically, a consultant “who contacts a media outlet in an attempt to get it to advance the client’s message in an editorial would also be delivering a message,” even if indirectly. JCOPE boss Daniel Horwitz calls this “reasonable regulation of speech.”
They “regulate” our Second Amendment rights down to a nullity and get away with it. How could anyone have thought they wouldn’t eventually try the trick on the First Amendment?
Forget the bunker-buster. Death by explosive compression or shrapnel bombardment is far too good for these bastards. It’s time to hang a few of them – dangle-and-strangle hangings, not drop hangings. Recorded and televised on YouTube, pour encourager les autres. I’m thinking of seeing to it personally.
2 comments:
Never thought I'd see the day that New York became worse than Massachusetts, but it looks like that day has come.
Although the dangle-and-strangle idea has merit; both in the east and in the west - where we just had a murder from ambush of a man with raised hands (where are the 'hands up don't shoot' folks for Robert Finnicum? Oh wait - he's white. Nevermind...) I believe a much more expeditious idea would be... napalm. Easier to manufacture than a bunker buster, and once the ash is disbursed by the wind, you have a somewhat clean slate! Ta da!
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