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Give me a friggin' break.

The Bill of Rights are specific prohibitions on the power and authority of the federal government. The Tenth Amendment reminds the government where to find its limited and enumerated powers defined, lest it should forget. Please pay attention to the first five words of the First Amendment:

"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."

If that long sentance is too difficult to undersand, break it down.

"Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of the press."

What part of NO, as in "Congress shall make no law...", is so hard for people to understand? These Rights are INDIVIDUAL Rights, not collective rights. Bloggers, by and large, are individuals exercising a fundamental Right.

Freedom of the press is not a corporate right. Nor is freedom of the press something exclusively within the domain of the corporate media, though they wish it were. It is an INDIVIDUAL Right.

These individual Rights are not priviledges granted by some benevolent government in its infinite wisdom. Rather, they are gifts bestowed upon us by our Creator, the Author of nature. See the Declaration of Independence for further clarification.

As an individual, I don't need an act of CONgress extending protections to something in which I already have a Right to do as a bona fide individual. As a blogger, I don't engage in journalism. I exercise a fundamental Right.

Read between the lines. This legislation is not meant to be protection. It is designed to give further leverage in its attempts to restrict the Rights of the individual. What I, and all other Americans, need is a government that respects and obeys the Constitution and the inseparable and inextricable Bill of Rights.