Urgent Need For All Bloggers!

A threat to the freedom of bloggers everywhere has emerged, something which was warned about during the 2004 election. By going to http://www.onlinecoalition.com, one can review and sign, if you agree, a letter of petition to the Federal Election Commission, requesting that no regulation be placed on bloggers regarding elections.

During the last election, a lot of information was available to voters, Democrat, Republican, and Independents, through online blogs. This has become the public marketplace of ideas, and from what this writer has seen, it appears that the future of much of the exchange of information lies in the online blog, or weblog. Everyone, no matter how small and seemingly insignificant, can participate in this medium, as witnessed by the entry here of one man, disabled, living from payday to payday, otherwise unknown in the world, but able here to express ideas that may be read and even debated by people far beyond his local circle of friends and family!

We must all, regardless of our political/social/economic status or leaning, come together for the purpose of defending our first amendment rights of free speech as well as the right in American history of a free press. I invite everyone who reads this to go to the website above and sign the letter. I have done it, it only takes a few seconds, and it coulod be very important to your future ability to express your opinion. I might note, I looked over the list of those who have signed, and saw names of both friends and those with whom I have had deep disagreements. I was glad to see them all, as we are all moved by the same desires, just with different ideas of how to get there.

Thank you for reading, please now go to the online coalition and sign up!

Joe Comer
Vidalia, GA