The Supreme Court gives the OK to the Buying and Selling of Congress.

 Mark January 21, 2010 as The Day Democracy Died. All that's left to do is to get Don McLean to do a song.


From Texas Trifles
 
Yesterday, the Supreme Court overturned a 63 year-old law that restricted what corporations and labor organizations may spend to sway the vote in federal elections.

Under the argument that freedom of speech was being violated, five Supreme Court judges (the same justices that gave us GW Bush by ruling in the 2000 Florida election, BTW) have now effectively placed powerful and wealthy corporations and labor organizations in a position to usurp the voice of the common voter.

When did a non-human thing like a corporation or a labor union get granted an individual right - Freedom of Speech? Do you think the founding fathers had Wal-Mart in mind or Haliburton when they crafted the Bills of Rights?

"The bottom line is, the Supreme Court has just predetermined the winners of next November's election. It won't be the Republican or the Democrats and it won't be the American people; it will be corporate America," Senator Charles Schumer, a Democrat from New York, said.

ED:

Next we will be giving corporations drivers' licenses, and the right to vote. Well maybe not...voting just became irrevelant. But we might see Corporations being denied a legal abortion, or even see gay corporations get married. Who knows where all the craziness will end. I guess eventually we will be paying social Security to Retired Corporations and letting them spend their old age in Homes for Aging Corporations.
What's nuts about this is.... a corporation, by it's very definition, does not die. The people who started it may die, but the corporation goes on unless and until the shareholders move to dissolve it. Since humans ALWAYS die eventually, it should be clear that corporations are not human and should not enjoy the rights that are preserved for our HUMAN citizens.

Keith Olbermann puts it quite chillingly:



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