Posted by aogTuesday, 24 July 2007 at 11:57 TrackBack Ping URL

Instapundit doesn’t agree, but I think this FEC complaint against the DailyKos is an excellent idea. Some may whine that it’s a strike against free speech, but that’s blaming the knife instead of the chef. The strike against free speech is the existence of the FEC and the laws that powers it, not somebody filing a complaint. One of the key things that keeps such law in place is its selective enforcement, particularly that it is far more frequently enforced against people who tend to oppose such law more than those who tend to support it. This is because the enforcers will naturally be more compatible / sympathetic to ideologies that support the law they’re enforcing. One powerful weapon in fighting the very idea of such regulation is to get it enforced on its supporters, precisely what this complaint does. It’s just another aspect of something I wrote previously, that living in your own garbage makes you more likely to want to clean it up.