Gagging the Opposition

The powers that be in Congress have gone through a government agency to start an investigation into HumanaCare for mailing out brochures to their insured customers explaining changes to their health care under Medicare Plus if the reforms being considered in both houses of Congress now are passed.

The transcript of Sen. Mitch McConell's comments on the actions taken at the request of Sen. Max Baucus are found at the link provided by clicking on the title for this particular blog.

It is generally accepted in law and precedents set that are followed in court that Corporations have a right to Free Speech under the First Amendment just as citizens do.

Amendment I §

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

To deny a corporation the right to communicate with it's customers is without precedent, but if this is not stopped, a precedent will have been set that leads down a primrose path.

Are you prepared to surrender your First Amendment rights to communicate to others your concerns and complaints to government actions, you right to petition for redress of grievances?

Complain, loudly and often to your Senators and Representatives about such infringements on you Constitutionally protected Rights. They are not Privileges to be doled out by Washington DC, they are our inalienable rights.

gadfly out