In Supreme Court Ruling on Campaign Finance, the Public Dissents

Way to go scotus–let’s turn more power over to the corporations who are running our economy into the ground thanks to their voracious greed. Screw the citizens you’re supposed to protect.

How do you impeach a Supreme Court Justice?

Well the Supreme Court really stepped on the rake with that decision. Do you think they give a darn what the people think?

Oh please, it isn’t as if politicians weren’t getting MILLIONS in campaign contributions anyway. It was corrupt before this decision, and has been for a long time. It just goes to show you the rule of law is a total farce in the U.S.

“A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. Being the mere creature of law, it possesses only those properties which the charter of creation confers upon it, either expressly, or as incidental to its very existence. These are such as are supposed best calculated to effect the object for which it was created.”
Chief Justice John Marshall
Dartmouth College v. Woodward-1819

If this were the early days of our republic or heck if our citizenry wasn’t dominated by passive people but real patriots the 5 justices would be tried for treason.
Impeach them, or pack the court with 2-4 justices to off-set them. Problem is we’re relying on Democrats to do it. They’ve sold the American people out only slightly less than the Republican leaders who love the decision.

Everyone needs to read Zinn’s People’s History. It will remove the veil from your eyes and make you understand that the US was never intended to be “By the people, of the people, for the people”, but that the US is BY DESIGN and INTENT “By the Elite, from the poor, to the Elite.”

Let’s see if I get this right: Congress is already flush with corporate cash to the extent that our legislators bear greater allegiance to their corporate benefactors than their corporeal constituents i.e. WE THE PEOPLE. Therefore, Congress is unwilling or unable to address the campaign finance reform issue in any meaningful way. WE THE PEOPLE are therefore wrongully deprived or our constitutionally guaranteed rights by virtue of our Congress’ willingness to act contrary to their own individual self interests. Is that not analagous to the case of the irresistable force meeting the immovable object? What happens in that scenario? Complete and total destruction of both entities and all those innocents within blast range, that’s what happens. As long as there is no meaningful campaign finance reform we perpetuate the status quo i.e. a right wing extremist packed SCOTUS and legislative gridlock. It is a vicious cycle unbreakable by any but extraordinary means and Congress refuses to act upon the perversion of justice. Is it not then left to WE THE PEOPLE to compel Congress through whatever means necessary to address the issue in a meaningful manner? Is that not what our forebears asserted in our Declaration of Independence? So why should this government be subject to any less aggressive action on the part of the rightful holders of power in this nation? The answer is that they should not. A reissuance of our Declaration of Independence is in order and mark my words, anything less, including that which followed that declaration will fail to reverse the trend toward tyranny and despotic rule.

Let’s see if I get this right: Congress is already flush with corporate cash to the extent that our legislators bear greater allegiance to their corporate benefactors than their corporeal constituents i.e. WE THE PEOPLE.
Therefore, Congress is unwilling or unable to address the campaign finance reform issues which led to this impasse in any meaningful way. WE THE PEOPLE are therefore wrongfully deprived or our constitutionally guaranteed rights by virtue of our Congress’ refusal to act contrary to their own individual self interests. Is that not analogous to the case of the irresistible force meeting the immovable object? What happens in that scenario? Complete and total destruction of both entities including all those innocents (WE THE PEOPLE) within blast range, that’s what happens.
As long as there is no meaningful campaign finance reform we perpetuate the existing impasse i.e. a corrupt Congress and a right wing extremist packed SCOTUS which completes the cycle. The Executive branch is incapable of affecting the necessary reforms absent the cooperation of both the Congress and the SCOTUS again shoring up the status quo. It is a vicious cycle unbreakable by any but the most extraordinary of means. Ahh, but under the existing circumstances and the Patriot Act, only the least offensive of objections will be tolerated by our government lest the offender be charged with being an “unlawful combatant”. Is it not then within the domain of WE THE PEOPLE to compel Congress through whatever means necessary to address the issues before our nation in a meaningful manner? Is that not what our forebears asserted in our Declaration of Independence and did they not find themselves largely similarly situated in that their most fundamental rights were repeatedly denied them by a tyrannical English government? So why should this government be subject to any less aggressive action on the part of the rightful holders of power in this nation, THE PEOPLE? The answer, as I see it, is that it should not.
A reissuance of our Declaration of Independence is in order and likely anything less, including that which followed the original declaration will fail to reverse this most disturbing trend toward tyrannical authoritarian rule in this country as only the most politically well-connected and wealthiest have any audible voice in the legislative process in this country.

All that talk about ‘activist’ judges. Thank you Alito, Roberts and Scalia. These are the people the GOP trumpets as the ideal for a Supreme Court Justice. I blame this decision squarely on the GOP. All 5 of the justices who voted for this decision were nominated by Republican Presidents. This is the culimination of the GOP vision of ‘less government.’ Everyone should remember this next time there is a opening on the court.

Chase: okay, deal. Unions should also not have undue influence on elections. They are also not actual living, breathing persons in the same way that corporations are not living and breathing. Neither of them can wear a uniform for their country, nor can they be tried for murder. Since neither possess a “mouth” they have no logical “freedom” of speech. They are associations of people but not actual people. There. I’m not a hypocrite.

The 80% opposed to decision should take note that every Justice appointed by a Democrat was in the dissenting minority (plus Stevens, appointed by a moderate Republican who probably would not be accepted in today’s GOP). The obvious conclusion is that the answer is to not put any more Republicans in the White House.

The Supreme court decison gives corporations the power to elect a person with their biases; this gives them power on the front end. The lobyists on the other hand give them the power to effect legislation. The Supreme court in their limited wisdom have given corporations supreme power to dicitate who legislates and what is legislated.

The argument that there is already money
spent infulencing elected officials
misses the point. The founding fathers
would have never supported a entity
like a corporation having a speach rights. The CEO or the CFO or the
guy who runs the personel office at
Exxon has a free speach right and can
go to the corner and stand on a box and say anything she wants..
Judge Alito is dead wrong…he has created a system in which the person with the most money has the MOST SPEECH….IT’s WRONG WHAT THE COURT HAS DONE….

The article is all about topic “In Supreme Court Ruling on Campaign Finance, the Public Dissents” the high court’s ruling throwing out limits on corporate spending in political campaigns & as corporation is a legal entity, not a human, it does not and should not have human rights. Corporations already had plenty of hands in campaigns, now it’s unlimited.The article is good & informative thank you for such awesome post.

the scotus ruling had nothing to do with corporate contributions, only media produced by corporations within 30 days of a primary or 60 days of an election. this ruling ONLY overturned the mccain feingold law, and had NO effect on the monetary contributions of corporations or unions to PAC’s or candidates. are all you people stupid? READ THE DAMN RULING!

Posted by: LDoren | Feb 17, 2010 1:35:47 PM: And you believe that the 73% of people “supposedly” opposed to healthcare reform read THAT bill? The NET result of this decision is that special interests, i.e. Unions, Corporations, PACs, and interest groups and lobbies, PhRMa, HMos, and others have been given a license to spread through ads, misinformation and/or blatant lies in order to steer elections towards a candidate or party that embraces their interests.

So this is the Bush Supreme Court in action: unconstitutional right-wing judicial activism and legislating from the bench at its very WORST.
Enjoying yourselves, my fellow Americans? (Which of course includes all American corporations now as well, because the Bush Court says they’re your fellow American “people” too.)
Impeach Roberts, Alito, Thomas and Scalia, in that order!

It’s fine with me if corporations have all the rights of individual citizens. Just set the maximum amount anyone, corporation or individual, can donate to all campaigns in a year at about $2000. You can use your $2000 for whatever you want- buy a tee shirt or part of a lobbyist-, give it to many candidates or just one, but every corporation and every individual is limited to $2000. If corporations and unions want to be equal, works for me, let’s let them have exactly the same right to buy a politician as the rest of us have. Should be the biggest change in DC politics since 1776.