Republicans can forget the 1st Amendment too
We read:
"Republican representatives Randy Truitt and Mark Messmer have proposed House Bill No. 1521 in the Indiana General Assembly that among other things, makes it a Class A misdemeanor to "intentionally participate in the preparation, dissemination or broadcast paid political advertising or campaign material, or in the drafting of a letter to the editor, that:
(1) concerns:
(A) the personal or political character or acts of a candidate for nomination or election to a public office; or
(B) the effect of a public question;
(2) is designed or tends:
(A) to elect, injure, promote, or defeat the candidate; or
(B) to promote or defeat the public question; and
(3) contains information or a statement that is false;"
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4 comments:
On the one hand, it would be nice to have only truthful ads out there, but the liberal media would use this as a shield to avoid any ad harmful to their preferred candidate.
"contains information or a statement that is false;"
This is a good idea, but only if it applies to politicians as well.
At first I was very concerned about this bill, until I reached number 3. That's the key to this bill. Quite simply, this bill is intended to make it illegal to lie about a candidate for office.
Anon 2 is right. I would be happy with this bill provided that it applies to politicians, AND applies to advertisements in favor of the candidate. Just imagine if Barak Obama had been arrested for the ad where he claimed that he did not oppose the Baby Born Alive act!
The lack of truth in politics is a huge problem for this country. I simply cannot imagine the First Amendment being intended to protect outright lying.
Yeah, right. This has a snowball's chance in h$ll of passing.
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