SB 120 Update - They Need Another Workgroup Session Before They Try To Deny You Your Rights - Granite Grok

SB 120 Update – They Need Another Workgroup Session Before They Try To Deny You Your Rights

Free speech is under attack by thuggish left-wing operatives  Graphic Michelle Malkin

Graphic – Michelle Malkin.com

Thursday the New Hampshire House held a workgroup session on Senate Bill 120 – an effort to institutionalize political speech within the ruling class.  Read this if that concept or this bill is new to you–or even if it is not.

The result of that was a decision to hold another session next week. ( Thursday, April 24  at 1:00pm – 2:30pm.)

Insiders who were at the hearing noted that there was enough dissent to give the committee chair pause.  My gut feeling tells me that proponents of the bill want a few days to call in some backup.

They want to stack the next hearing with overwhelming voices of support before they vote themselves and their ruling class masters a monopoly on political speech in New Hampshire.   That way it will appear as if the people demanded to be silenced when they try to push it through.

That progressive backup will come from faux-grassroots leftists who are actually paid lobbyists, funded with outside money, who will be unaffected by the bills restrictions.  There could be a few career bureaucrats with nice titles. They may even troll out a Republican or two–there are plenty of Democrats in the NH House elected as (r)epublicans to whitewash the proceedings with a patina of bipartisan support.  (As if they needed it–SB 120 was hatched in the Republican State Senate.)

That does not change the fact that this bill only benefits elected officials, unions, the rich, lawyers, lobbyists, and PAC’s by further securing their monopoly on political speech.  That alone is grounds to kill it.  And yet, for some reason, it still lives.

So we need your help.

Defenders of Free Speech need to appear and speak in numbers.  Just show up at the hearing next week and see if you can ask questions (or get questions asked) like ‘whose speech does this actually protect,’ or “why does this appear to advantage the political speech of incumbents, lobbyists, and PACs’ over work-a-day small business owners and regular citizens?”

‘Why are you giving a speech monopoly to connected insiders at the expense of voters and taxpayers?”

“Whose idea was it to make expressing a political opinion in a manner necessary to ensure it is actually heard, so complex?”

“Politicians are using the force of law to make it harder to express a political opinion in opposition to their actions–you don’t see that as a corrupt act of arrogance and contempt for regular New Hampshire citizens who pay for the power you are using to silence them?”

“You realize that if you pass this assault on open political discourse that the people most likely to be silenced might be unable to effectively explain to their fellow citizens why they can no longer freely express their political opinions without violating the law?”

You get the idea.

Stop SB 120.  Then fire the Republicans who sponsored it and voted for it.  (The Democrats must be removed as well if that is not self-evident.)

SB 120 is one of several offensive and unconstitutional assaults on liberty this session (and last)–by people who have made a habit of offending liberty on a regular basis.

Note: You can also get updates on this and other bills at the NHLA and RLCNH Facebook pages if you are a member of those groups.

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