Mark Probert in his usual dishonesty makes a deceiving title:

Jan Drew Admits She Supports Censorship and restrictions on Free Speech.

LadyLollipop wrote:

Mr. Langer is not mentioned in that article and I find is telling that
you would even mention his name in mha where he has not appeared (via
crosspost) since June 8, 2005.

I should email him and let him know you are trashing him behind his back.

Pathetic, as usual, Mark, I have posted, the very same thing to him

As for the substance of your comment...

You now clearly support restrictions on Free Speech and censorship.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/08/11/lobby.america/

CNN) -- There's no denying both political parties in Congress are now owned
lock, stock and barrel by corporate interests. Our nation's elected
officials in Washington have formed a partnership with the corporate
supremacists and special interest groups in an effort to drive profits to
the bottom line of U.S. multinationals at the expense of hard-working
Americans.
Congress over the past few months has all-too-willingly approved
corporate-friendly -- and often corporate-written -- transportation and
energy bills, as well as so-called bankruptcy reform that further rents the
middle class' social safety net. And not surprisingly, there's a serious
correlation between the dramatic increase in money spent by special interest
groups on lobbying and corporate America's taking over the deed to Capitol
Hill.

Let's be clear about this: Calling these greedy people "lobbyists" simply
because they convene in the hallowed lobbies of Washington is akin to
calling parasites "bodyists" or viruses "blood-streamers." What they're
really doing is selling out American workers and hastening the decline in
our nation's standard of living and quality of life.

Corporations, entire industries and other special interest groups spent a
record $2.14 billion on lobbying members of Congress and 220 other federal
agencies last year, according to Political MoneyLine, a nonpartisan research
service that tracks campaign contributions. That figure represents a 7
percent increase over 2003 and an astonishing 34 percent jump from the
amount of money spent on lobbying in 2001.

Interestingly, while many major news stories tend to focus on campaign
finance reform, twice as much money has been spent on lobbying Congress than
on federal elections since 1998. All told, corporations and special
interests have spent more than $12 billion on lobbying efforts over that
time, according to the Center for Public Integrity.

Congressmen Rahm Emanuel of Illinois and Marty Meehan of Massachusetts have
introduced legislation that would, among other things, strengthen lobbying
disclosure requirements, slow the "revolving door" between public service
and lobbying and make it easier for Americans to learn about who is lobbying
members of Congress. Sen. Russ Feingold of Wisconsin has introduced a
similar version in the Senate.

But Congressman Emanuel says he thinks the leaders of Congress aren't
interested in changing the way it operates, or even the way lobbyists
operate.

"When the Speaker's gavel comes down, it's intended to open the People's
House, and lately it's looking like the Auction House," says Rep. Emanuel,
"Whether it's an energy bill that gives more $8 billion to the oil and gas
interests while oil's at $64 a barrel, whether it's a corporate tax bill
solving a $5 billion problem with a $150 billion solution, whether it's a
pharmaceutical, prescription drug bill where the industry gave $132 million
and walked away with $135 billion in additional profits."

The corporate lobby has become more effective recently because it's hiring
more experienced players, in effect creating a "revolving door" between
Capitol Hill and K Street. In fact, 43 percent of the eligible congressional
members who departed government during that time have become lobbyists,
while half of all eligible departing senators have become lobbyists. Nearly
250 former members of Congress and federal agency chiefs have become
lobbyists since 1998, while more than 2,200 former federal employees have
registered as federal lobbyists.

The striking rise in money spent on lobbying also increases the chances for
abuse. Lobbyists are required to report who pays them and how much they're
paid, but nearly 85 percent of the top 250 lobbying firms have failed to
file one or more required forms, according to the Center for Public
Integrity. The biggest abuses, however, stem from lobbyists' paying for
politicians' dinners, trips, golf outings and more. Members of Congress over
the past five years have received more than $18 million to travel the world
at the expense of private organizations, PoliticalMoneyLine reports. Those
expenses include 6,242 trips for 628 lawmakers from both political parties.

Alex Knott, LobbyWatch project manager at the Center for Public Integrity,
calls this process buying a consensus. "I think where a lot of people find
problems is that a special interest ... has a greater ability to influence
members of Congress and agencies than average American citizens do," he
says. "They will send them on these huge golf trips and these expensive
dinners, and they will have their ear right before they go and vote because
they will catch them in the hallways just before a major vote happens. And
this makes it almost impossible for the individual's voice to penetrate the
loud buzz that comes from lobbyists."

Americans also want to see changes in Washington: More than four in five
Americans believe it would be a "very serious" or "moderately serious"
ethical breach if their member of Congress took a trip paid for by a
lobbyist, according to a recent USAToday/CNN/Gallup poll.

Lobbyists aren't the only ones to blame for the current business-first
environment in Washington, but they're enabling those corporate interests to
cozy up to our nation's elected officials. We must take action to return
Congress to the business of the American citizenry, not the business of the
corporate supremacists.

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If you want to continue the rest of the discussion, I will do so under the
correct subject title, your choice.