Sunday, March 29, 2009

Congress to Burn Books

You know, like Nazi Germany.

See: The Difference Between Obliterate and Wipe Off the Map

"High court may trim McCain-Feingold; Question whether measure applies to 'Hillary' movie" by Robert Barnes, Washington Post | March 25, 2009

WASHINGTON - .... The government's lawyer rattled the justices by asserting that Congress possessed the power - hypothetically - to ban some political books before an election....

Good. No more self-adulating piles of autobiographical bulls***!!!

Deputy Solicitor General Malcolm Stewart... quickly found himself pulled into a discussion of something at issue in neither the law nor the case: whether the government could prevent using corporate or union funds to publish a book that mentioned a candidate for office within the election time frame.

I suppose they need not even do that; publishing houses reject stuff all the time. It's known as self-censorship in a self-censoring society!

Stewart said that it could, though he quickly added that there was an exception in the law for the media, and that the law said nothing about books....

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As for the media, if there isn't, there will be soon: Senate Says Newspapers Are Non-Profits

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