Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

May 7, 2009

Political elitists routinely enhance their power through measures supposedly intended to protect the proverbial little guy. Campaign finance reform laws, for instance, were supposed to reduce the influence of big money donors in election campaigns; in practice, however, those laws restrict political speech, thereby protecting incumbents from criticism.

A similar outcome can be expected should Congress enact HR 1966, the so-called Cyberbullying Prevention Act. The bill would criminalize the use of online media to ?harass? people ? including public figures ? through ?severe, repeated, and hostile? criticism that causes ?substantial emotional distress? to those thus targeted.

The bill?s sponsor, Rep. Linda Sanchez of California, and all fourteen of its co-sponsors voted in favor of the recently enacted hate crimes bill, which continues the trend of treating some crime victims as a specially protected class. The transparent intent of this bill is to make politicians a class protected from on-line criticism.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.