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| Authored by: Ed L. on Friday, May 25 2012 @ 11:54 PM EDT |
| Indeed. Referring to
American Tradition Partnership, Inc. v. Bullock and
Money, politics and Citizens
United's fate, upon your point the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision
was very, very flawed. A recent article in
The New Yorker gives an hysterical overview of this travesty. The
Court's basic reasoning was "Money speaks. Money is speech. Speech is protected
by the First Amendment. Therefore money may be spoken in whatever way the
moneyed person shall choose."
And, "Corporations are people too!"
But as
you observe, that "corporations are people" is a convenient legal fiction. It is
convenient because it allows corporations to enter the same sorts of contracts
and assume the same legal responsibilities and liabilities as do people. That is
very convenient. It is also a fiction. Corporations are not people. They are not
of woman born. They live by the states, die by the states, and are regulated by
the states. Further, the money corporations collect from sales of goods and
services comes from real people who may have little choice as to who provides
those goods and services, and/or little knowledge (and less say) about how those
moneys are to be spent for political causes with which they may not agree. This
gives the people who run the corporation a much louder voice in politics, e.g.
by buying advertising space, than they would otherwise have were they spending
money solely from their own personal income. Hence Dylan's
admonition:
"Money does not speak, it swears."
I'd invite the Supreme Court the observation that profanity is
not protected speech.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, May 27 2012 @ 11:30 AM EDT |
Corporations do not have a right to vote!
Why should they
have a right voice themselves in elections?
Imagine where a
Corporation could vote... and fire any employee that "does not tow the Corporate
line".
You might just as well change the voting Laws to say no private
citizen may vote... Only Corporations may vote.
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