Ahh, but in all logical reasoning Money (Dollars) does indeed equal speech, especially in a free market economy with competing press.
In order to have anything but a news story or a letter to the editor printed in a newspaper, you have to buy (with money) advertising space. In order to run a radio ad for anything you have to buy the airtime. In order to run a television promotion you have to spend lots of money. In order to send out a mailing, you have to buy the paper, the envelopes and the stamps. If you want to print a flyer, you have to pay for the paper, the printing costs and maybe the layouts. To present any kind of a message to the general population for mass consumption you must spend some amount of money. By restricting the amount of money you can spend in attempting to deliver that message, your freedom of speech is, in fact, restricted. Now here's where the interesting connection is made. If a group donates money to a campaign or political party, then that money is used to promote a candidate. When *lots* of money comes in, then the candidate has *lots* of money to spend selling him/her self. Logically a SIG/Corp is going to donate money to someone that espouses the same ideals that they hold. What has happened is that they have dumped funding into a campaign for someone that might be willing to adopt new policies if they win. The concept of "buying favor" isn't a good one, but there are different ways to deal with the situation than the legislation that just cleared the House floor. Hatton > > $'s != Speech in my book.... > > You know what bugs me, i just noticed this the $ sign only has one line. > > jon > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "C. Hatton Humphrey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 10:12 AM > Subject: RE: yay! > > > > > > The house and senate have now both passed the Shays-Meehan campain > > > > finance > > > > reform bill. Now, let's just hope that Georgey boy signs it. > > > > > > I actually hope he doesn't. That whole freedom of speech thing keeps > > > getting in the way. I shouldn't have my rights taken away > because some > > > corrupt politicos can't keep their hands out of the cookie jar. > > > > As I said, I don't like it... I figure it'll go the way of Prohibition, > only > > I'm willing to let the Supreme Court make that call. > > > > It does smack of slamming large amounts of tape over everyone's mouth, > > doesn't it? > > > > Hatton > > > ______________________________________________________________________ Macromedia ColdFusion 5 Training from the Source Step by Step ColdFusion http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201758474/houseoffusion Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
