The Federal Election Commission complaint against the free distribution of his 2012 anti-Obama film was a “dangerous development” threatening free speech, filmmaker Joel Gilbert told WND after the three Democrats on the six-member panel were prevented from punishing him......“If the make-up of the Federal Election Commission is changed because a Democrat wins the presidency and appoints one more Democrat than Republican to the commission, we face a dire future in which only political speech favorable to far-left agenda will be tolerated in America”.....“Astonishingly, and despite the clear precedent, the FEC vote was 3-to-3. This means that the three Democrats on the commission ignored the law in order to pursue a political agenda to persecute free speech,” ..........“Commissioner Ravel believes that there are too many instances where the commissioners have evenly divided their votes, and that the bipartisan safeguards that prevent one party from politicizing or misusing the agency to punish political enemies stand in the way of meaningful enforcement,”......“Freedom of the press isn’t so free when three government commissars vote to punish a filmmaker for distributing a documentary film,”......
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