Well it seems that a couple of our favorite sleazy Democratic Senators, little “Chuckie” Schumer from New York and his fellow scumbag Ben Cardin, who, like gasbag Steny Hoyer over in the House, is yet another moron from Maryland, have taken it upon themselves to introduce a little jewel of a piece of legislation designed to do one thing, and one thing only. It would be to make it a federal crime to publish false or misleading election material in an effort to prevent people from voting. Is this not a colossal waste of time? You see, it's crap like this that these Senate Democrats would rather waste time on than on actually passing, or at least voting on, the 20+ pieces of legislation passed in the House and awaiting some sort of action by the Senate.
They have named their legislation, using typical Orwellian language, the Deceptive Practices and Voter Intimidation Prevention Act of 2011, and it would, in theory, bring federal criminal and civil penalties to anyone who intentionally puts out false information in an attempt to dissuade or prevent people from voting. The law only applies to false information published 90 days before a federal election and only to information regarding voting eligibility and the time and place of elections. It sounds like something that is likely to snare more Democrats than it would anyone else. Because intentionally putting out false information prior to an election is something that liberals have been doing for decades. But I'm sure that's not what these two have in mind.
This doofus Cardin, one of the bill’s chief sponsors, went so far as to make the idiotic claim that his bill does not violate the “broad” First Amendment protections afforded to political speech, saying that there is no constitutional protection for “fraudulent speech.” But who is it exactly that would be called upon to define what this “fraudulent speech” might consist of? “There’s not a First Amendment protection of fraudulent speech. It’s not a First Amendment-protected right,” Cardin said at the Capitol on Wednesday. So what might be the political motivation for these two clowns? Because if we known anything about such slimy characters, it's that there is always some sort of ulterior motive that's in play, especially around election time.
Cardin also attempted to portray this little charade would actually provide some benefit in saying that the law would target only those with “an intent to disenfranchise” voters by publishing confusing information about when or where an election was taking place or who was eligible to vote. He explained that the law would not try to outlaw all types of misleading or potentially false political speech, but is only “aiming” at attempts to disenfranchise voters. Again, it sounds to me as if this might be a bigger problem for lying Democrats than it would be for anybody else, because, after all, it's usually they who absolutely relish the spreading of all manner of falsehoods, baseless accusations and outright lies the closer that they get to an election.
“We’re not aiming at that,” said Cardin. “We’re aiming at – as you saw – these are efforts to disenfranchise voters. When you tell them the wrong date or you have a fraudulent party identification that’s clearly fraudulent – issues like that [that] are clearly aimed at disenfranchising voters.” Again, what this moron is talking about are exactly the type of tactics that are routinely used by Democrats, and on a rather large scale. So these two dolts might want to be a little careful here, otherwise all they may end up doing to snare a rather significant number of their own kind. Now wouldn't that be a shame? This whole scheme is nothing more that yet another Democrat attempt to squelch freedom of speech.
The bill would supposedly strictly outlaw any production – print, electronic, or telephonic – of any intentionally false information with the intent to mislead or disenfranchise voters within 90 days of a federal election. The bill would also prohibit intentionally misleading voters about who has or has not endorsed a candidate and prohibits anyone from interfering with or hindering voting or voter registration with the intent to prohibit someone from voting or registering to vote. In other words, the law makes it illegal to intentionally misrepresent an endorsement of federal candidates and to disrupt voting and voter registration drives in an effort to prevent people from voting or registering to vote. Therefore, at least potentially, make voter fraud a bit easier.
The law also directs the attorney general of the United States, in this case the esteemed Eric " I'm a racist and damn proud of it" Holder, to issue corrective information should the prohibitions on misleading information be violated and local officials not act quickly enough to correct the misleading information. The law would allow the attorney general to respond to reported violations of the law by issuing written or any other communications he deems necessary to correct misleading election information. There does not have to be an ongoing investigation or a conviction for the attorney general to be able to issue the correction, only a credible report that the law has been violated. Put this right up there with suing states for enforcing federal immigration laws.
Cardin said the law could be violated in any number of ways by different people – not just official campaigns – including a radio broadcast giving out misleading information on when an election is happening. “Sure,” Cardin said when asked if a misleading broadcast could violate the law, “[if] somebody’s attempting to stop people from voting, [then] yes.” Ah, so finally in the end we get a little bit of truth. Is this really a problem that's in need of being urgently addressed? I mean the only instances that I can remember where something close to this occurred, the culprits were Democrats. Such sleazy tactics are not something used by those on the right, despite the baseless claims made by those on the loony left, like these two members of the Senate.
The plain truth here is that all these two unscrupulous characters are desperately trying to accomplish here, is a genuine twofer. They're trying to come up with some "legal" method to make it easier to trick-fuck the system. It's obvious that Democrats in Congress, as well as Barry "Almighty" himself, have no record on which they can run. Therefore, they have no alternative but to do all that they can to somehow rig the system so that it's more in their favor. And what concerns me is that more people don't see the level of hypocrisy in play here. Democrats as a general rule don’t give a rats behind about anything other than doing all they can to tilt the playing field in such a way as to provide their tactics some level of legitimacy. And this is nothing but the latest attempt in that endeavor.
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