by Jane Gray, via Facebook Just hours ago, the Supreme Court gave Corporate America a green light to use its immense wealth to buy elected officials.
The court's shocking decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission struck down 60 years of legal precedent prohibiting corporations from making campaign expenditures to attack or support political candidates.
The court ruled that the First Amendment - designed to protect the speech of real, live humans - guarantees for-profit corporations the right to influence elections.
This is nothing short of a massive assault on the very foundation of American democracy.
Please watch this special video on what Public Citizen is doing in response to the Supreme Court's decision. Then sign our Citizen's Free Speech Petition calling for a constitutional amendment ensuring corporate power doesn't overwhelm our democracy. And forward my email to your family and friends so they can join our campaign, too.
We must fight back. The lines are clearly drawn. PEOPLE V. CORPORATIONS.
That's why Public Citizen is launching a historic campaign to pass a constitutional amendment on behalf of human beings. To restore human beings to the center of the political process. To say no to unfettered corporate power. And we need your help.
In the wake of the court's decision, corporations can pour virtually unlimited amounts of cash into political campaigns. If candidates challenge the corporate agenda, they will be buried under mountains of corporate cash. If candidates do the bidding of a corporation, they will be rewarded from corporate America's bottomless treasury.
The only surefire solution to a corporate takeover of American democracy is a constitutional amendment re-establishing that First Amendment protections (except for freedom of the press) do not apply to for-profit corporations.
Corporations are not human beings. Corporations should not be free to use their massive concentrations of financial power to drown out the voices of real people.
Please watch this special video on what Public Citizen is doing in response to the Supreme Court's decision.
After watching the short video, you can take immediate action by signing the Citizen's Free Speech Petition and stand with your fellow humans against corporate power.
And I need you to forward my email to your friends and family. Urge them to watch the video and sign the Citizen's Free Speech Petition, too.
In the coming weeks and months, you will be hearing more about Public Citizen's nationwide mobilization to protect the speech of human beings. You will be asked to participate, agitate and organize. The framers of the Constitution did not intend for the First Amendment to apply to for-profit corporations, and it shouldn't. We are not now going to surrender our democratic institutions to the control of powerful corporations.
Help us fight back.
Please watch this special video on what Public Citizen is doing in response to the Supreme Court's decision. Then sign the petition and forward this email to all your friends and family members.
Join Public Citizen's grassroots mobilization. Help us take back our democracy.
Join the campaign!
Robert Weissman, President
P.S. Please watch this special video on how you can take action. Then sign our Citizen's Free Speech Petition and urge your friends to do the same. Together, we can restore citizens' control to our political system and ensure corporate power doesn't overwhelm our democracy by amending our constitution to protect the free speech rights of citizens.
My own comments with regard to this outrage are inadequate. Nothing I might say is more to the point or more appropriate than the following from Che Guevara's treatise on Guerilla Warfare:
People must see clearly the futility of maintaining the fight for social goals within the framework of civil debate. When the forces of oppression come to maintain themselves in power against established law; peace is considered already broken. --Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Guerilla WarfareNow --someone posted the 'official spin' on my FB page. It reads:
"Today, the U.S. Supreme Court announced a landmark victory for free speech, making clear in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission that under the First Amendment the government cannot stifle dissent by restricting the right of corporations to spend money on independent political speech." --U.S. Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Free Speech In Citizens United CaseBULLSHIT!
Corporations are not people! Granting them rights that, by right, belong only to real, living, breathing, thinking people is nonsense and sophistry. I smell the work of a GOP consulting firm and focus group.
Secondly, people cannot match the amount of money's available to corporations to buy governmental 'winks and nods' or sway elections unfairly for venal corporate causes. SCOTUS has now given corporations --mere legal abstractions --the 'right' to BUY their politicians, political whores inside and around the government, on the open market!
POLITICAL PROSTITUTION
The GOP wrecked the economy, transferred wealth to just one percent of the population. Now the GOP has the nerve --the un-mitigated gaul -- to legalize political prostitution by making bribery by corporations legal. What venal sophistry! The government of the US is no longer legitimate. Revolution!
The fascist domination of American life and debate is possible because people have 'bought into' the pernicious notion of 'corporate personhood'. This notion facilitates More's 'conspiracy of rich men'.
Mere legal abstractions are absurdly accorded rights that, by right, belong only to real, living, flesh and blood people.
Corporations are given license to lie about misdeeds, incompetence and corporate criminality, literally, a 'conspiracy of rich men: the Tea Baggers and idiots who have bought into it; and the GOP consultants, firms, and focus groups who dreamed it all up, the liars whose offices line K-Street.
Don't try to peddle the bullshit story that this is a victory for 'free speech'. Rather --this is the DEATH of it!
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Also see: - A Spiritual Mind Movie
- How the US Became a Vassal State of China
- Terrorism is Worse Under GOP Regimes
- The US Army Document That Proves the US is the World's Number One Sponsor of World Terrorism
- Dissecting the Scrambled Brains of the GOP
- Why the CIA is the World's Number One Terrorist Organization [w/LINKS]
- Why the CIA is the World's Number One Terrorist Organization [PDF]
- How the GOP Pays Off its 'Base' of Elites
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7 comments:
I think you forgot to link to the video and petition!
I have perhaps the perfect complement to you Che Guevara quote:
"A Government that makes peaceful revolution impossible, makes armed revolution inevitable."
-- John F. Kennedy
Hello Len,
I've seen this day coming for months. I knew the court was ruling, and we all knew how they would rule.
This is beyond serious, and I need to remind people that the Democrats did not filibuster this lowlife Opus Dei, prick....John Roberts. Or the almost as bad, Alito.
The Democrats are not an alternative. Clinton "looked forward" and refused to investigate Iran-Contra, just as Obama insisted he wants to "look forward" and so he prohibited John Conyers, who GUARANTEED hearings on Bush illegalities from doing so.
The United States is dying for lack of a political party that represents the renters in the United States....the indentured servants....as a bulwark against the overwhelming power of the owners of the United States.
The Democrats ain't that !
And I blame the people who are not so much citizens of the United States, as much as abused children.
Our "citizenry" is clueless about politics, economics, history in a way that is not seen anywhere else on earth.
Give credit to the GOP...they ended slavery for African Americans by making the normal condition of All Americans SLAVERY !
There can and will be zero citizens' movement here until citizens are no longer utterly ignorant insects of labor, which is what they are in the USA.
Click on JANE GRAY'S credit line under the title. It's takes you to her PAGE and there is a link there to the petition.
Time to impeach those 5 justices.
Same felonious five who gave us Bush as President.
There's no constitutional basis for "artificial persons" to be accorded the same rights as "natural persons," anyway.
It's half sham and half scam with a little bit of flim-flam.
Impeach 'em all; let god sort 'em out.
Liberty & Justice,
sj
Americans labor under the delusion that there are TWO major political parties, the Dems and Repubs.
Nothing could be further from the truth as both parties exist only to serve the REAL party, the 'Corporate War Party,'
That party exists to serve the Pentagon, Wall Street Casinos, the Fortune 500 and Apartheid Israel.
Neither give a damn about We the People except to lie to us so they can propagate their schemes.
After one year of Mr. 'Hope and Change,' it must be obvious to even the most dense that OBOMBA is just an extension of GW Bush.
Pelosi, Reid, Dodd, Schumer, Waxman and all the other Democratic dogs are nothing more than bagmen for more wars, more debt and to push us ever closer to statism, where the corporations are the government.
Forget the Dems, they're as sleaxy and corrupt as the Repubs.
Watch the Dems next November when Americans get fooled again into voting for the least smelly and toss out the Dems.
Their leaders will be all over the media, singing the blues and wringing their hands, crying that they got away from their base, the working stiffs.
And some will still believe those worthless POS.
Democrats are compromised because CAMPAIGNS cost HUGE AMOUNTS OF MONEY. Dems don't have the luxury of being independent. They are 'owned' and thus are controlled and marginalized. Besides --it is to the advantage of the GOP to maintain the ILLUSION of a two party system.
There are NUMEROUS reforms that could smash the entrenched RIGHT WING MINDSET which dominates US politics. But --face it --the American people just don't have the stomach for it. They are 'comfortable' slaves, compromised by the 'illusion' of suburban conventionality.
The labor movement, already in its death throes, was finished off by R. Reagan.
Among the reforms which will NEVER be enacted are the DIRECT ELECTION OF President, getting the states OUT OF ANY INVOLVEMENT in the direct election of the Prez, and the abolition of the electoral college.
Unless the sheeple wake up, nothing will be done and CORPORATIONS will continue to OWN the US government.
YOU --therefore --are a slave. IT's the new Rome.
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