Harry Reid (D) has introduced a bill that would…
registration of bloggers with more than 500 readers, and who comment on policy issues.
Via Arms and the Law some relevant portions of the proposed law…
FILING BY GRASSROOTS LOBBYING FIRMS- Not later than 45 days after a grassroots lobbying firm first is retained by a client to engage in paid efforts to stimulate grassroots lobbying, such grassroots lobbying firm shall register with the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives.’.
Translation: registration of a thing is always the precursor to regulation of that thing.
The list of democrat allies decrying the Bush admin’s supposed intrusion into the private lives of Americans is legion. Will the list be just as long decrying this intrusion? Of course not.
Fascism:
2 : a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control
Via The Corner