Dear Group, As a non-US member I also find this interesting.
As an ordinary citizen who has personally argued and won some cases before the Supreme Court of my country (India) on Free Speech issues (one coincidentally involving large corporations and television broadcasting), I was actually quite impressed with the reasoning in the majority ratio handed down by your Supreme Court (although to be frank, I am not up to speed on the case law of your country).in "*Citizens United vs Federal Election Commission*". The message I got from the judgement is that the Court is adamant on ensuring that citizens are fully informed no matter what the source of information is so long as the mandatory disclaimers are in place and the bias is spelled out up front. "*The Government may regulate corporate political speech through disclaimer and disclosure requirements, but it may not suppress that speech altogether*." Heck, now Osama-BL Inc. has the right to buy air-time and tell you what he thinks of the Georges Bush, I also find that the petition you signed is based on a limited and incorrect understanding of the judgement, and is designed on the premise that "*you can get at least one half of the American public to sign anything if you word the question properly*". It would be instructive to those interested to read the actual majority opinion summarised here http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/08-205.ZO.html Just in passing, if some people imagine that a "Constitutional democracy" is a good thing, read this for an alternative view from one of the greatest philosophers of our age .. its brilliant in parts. http://www.mathaba.net/gci/theory/gb1.htm Sarbajit On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 7:42 PM, Robert J. Cordingley <[email protected] > wrote: > Given the opining in this list, US members might find this site of > interest: > http://movetoamend.org/ > Perhaps a chance to actually do something? > Thanks > Robert > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >
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