Fascinating! So your interpretation of "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press." is that the government should actually own and run the press!
But why stop there? Please, apply your system to the rest of the 1st Amendment! So.what's our official religion? We lack a king/queen: who will you select as the head of our official church? What say you? Archbishop Roberts? Archbishop Pelosi? cjf Christopher J. Feola From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Robert J. Cordingley Sent: Friday, May 14, 2010 11:47 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] What you can do. Perhaps this helps: http://movetoamend.org/learn-more the source of the Justice Stevens quote. BTW, in the face of declining investigative journalism in the US there has been some talk of government sponsored news media in much the same way PBS has some public funding but with a legal mandate to be independent. You can look at the BBC News as another model. Corporate Personhood may be a bigger problem [threat to our democracy]. Thanks Robert On 5/14/10 7:16 PM, Chris Feola wrote: No problem, Robert-help me into the boat. Who is press? Who isn't? Who decides? cjf Christopher J. Feola President, nextPression Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/cjfeola From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Robert J. Cordingley Sent: Friday, May 14, 2010 5:20 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] What you can do. Actually Chris, I think you are also missing the boat by focusing on the technicalities of a legal argument most of us would have to pay someone to help us with. So see this quote: Justice Stevens, in dissent, was compelled to state the obvious: . . . . corporations have no consciences, no beliefs, no feelings, no thoughts, no desires. Corporations help structure and facilitate the activities of human beings, to be sure, and their "personhood" often serves as a useful legal fiction. But they are not themselves members of "We the People" by whom and for whom our Constitution was established. Thanks Robert On 5/14/10 3:35 PM, Chris Feola wrote: Actually, Sarbajit is quite on point. If you read the decision you will see that one reason the law was struck down was it tried to get around its obvious violation of the 1st Amendment by carving out an exemption for "media" since the press is, largely, corporate. Overturning this decision therefore leaves two largely unpalatable choices: 1. The government decides what Fox News can broadcast and The New York Times can print, since corporations do not have a 1st Amendment rights. 2. The government decides who and what are "media" and therefore get 1st Amendment rights. Both seem to be somewhat outside the spirit of "Congress shall make no law..." But don't take my word for it. Here's noted 1st Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams, who won the Pentagon Papers case for The New York Times: "And my reaction is sort of a John McEnroe: You cannot be serious! We're talking about the First Amendment here, and we're being told that an extremely vituperative expression of disdain for a candidate for president is criminal in America?" "I think that two things are at work," Mr. Abrams says. "One is that there are an awful lot of journalists that do not recognize that they work for corporations. . . . "A second is an ideological one. I think that there is a way of viewing this decision which . . . looks not at whether the First Amendment was vindicated but whether what is simply referred to as, quote, democracy, unquote, was vindicated. My view is, we live in a world in which the word 'democracy' is debatable . . . It is not a word which should determine interpretation of a constitution and a Bill of Rights, which is at its core a legal document as well as an affirming statement of individual freedom," he says. "Justice Potter Stewart . . . warned against giving up the protections of the First Amendment in the name of its values. . . . The values matter, the values are real, but we protect the values by protecting the First Amendment. <http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704094304575029791336276632.h tmlcjf,recoveringjournalistChristopherJ.FeolaPresident,nextPressionFollowmeo nTwitter:http:/twitter.com/cjfeola-----OriginalMessage-----From:friam-bounce [email protected]%5bmailto:[email protected]%5donbehalfofmerlelefkoffsen t:Friday,May14,20101:39PMTo:TheFridayMorningAppliedComplexityCoffeeGroupSubj ect:Re:%5bFRIAM%5dWhatyoucando.merlelefkoffwrote:Sarbajitmissestheboatcomple tely.Thereasonthatthegovernment> " <http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704094304575029791336276632.h tmlcjf,recoveringjournalistChristopherJ.FeolaPresident,nextPressionFollowmeo nTwitter:http:/twitter.com/cjfeola-----OriginalMessage-----From:friam-bounce [email protected]%5bmailto:[email protected]%5donbehalfofmerlelefkoffsen t:Friday,May14,20101:39PMTo:TheFridayMorningAppliedComplexityCoffeeGroupSubj ect:Re:%5bFRIAM%5dWhatyoucando.merlelefkoffwrote:Sarbajitmissestheboatcomple tely.Thereasonthatthegovernment> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704094304575029791336276632.ht <http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704094304575029791336276632.h tmlcjf,recoveringjournalistChristopherJ.FeolaPresident,nextPressionFollowmeo nTwitter:http:/twitter.com/cjfeola-----OriginalMessage-----From:friam-bounce [email protected]%5bmailto:[email protected]%5donbehalfofmerlelefkoffsen t:Friday,May14,20101:39PMTo:TheFridayMorningAppliedComplexityCoffeeGroupSubj ect:Re:%5bFRIAM%5dWhatyoucando.merlelefkoffwrote:Sarbajitmissestheboatcomple tely.Thereasonthatthegovernment> ml <http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704094304575029791336276632.h tmlcjf,recoveringjournalistChristopherJ.FeolaPresident,nextPressionFollowmeo nTwitter:http:/twitter.com/cjfeola-----OriginalMessage-----From:friam-bounce [email protected]%5bmailto:[email protected]%5donbehalfofmerlelefkoffsen t:Friday,May14,20101:39PMTo:TheFridayMorningAppliedComplexityCoffeeGroupSubj ect:Re:%5bFRIAM%5dWhatyoucando.merlelefkoffwrote:Sarbajitmissestheboatcomple tely.Thereasonthatthegovernment> <http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704094304575029791336276632.h tmlcjf,recoveringjournalistChristopherJ.FeolaPresident,nextPressionFollowmeo nTwitter:http:/twitter.com/cjfeola-----OriginalMessage-----From:friam-bounce [email protected]%5bmailto:[email protected]%5donbehalfofmerlelefkoffsen t:Friday,May14,20101:39PMTo:TheFridayMorningAppliedComplexityCoffeeGroupSubj ect:Re:%5bFRIAM%5dWhatyoucando.merlelefkoffwrote:Sarbajitmissestheboatcomple tely.Thereasonthatthegovernment> <http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704094304575029791336276632.h tmlcjf,recoveringjournalistChristopherJ.FeolaPresident,nextPressionFollowmeo nTwitter:http:/twitter.com/cjfeola-----OriginalMessage-----From:friam-bounce [email protected]%5bmailto:[email protected]%5donbehalfofmerlelefkoffsen t:Friday,May14,20101:39PMTo:TheFridayMorningAppliedComplexityCoffeeGroupSubj ect:Re:%5bFRIAM%5dWhatyoucando.merlelefkoffwrote:Sarbajitmissestheboatcomple tely.Thereasonthatthegovernment> cjf, recovering journalist <http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704094304575029791336276632.h tmlcjf,recoveringjournalistChristopherJ.FeolaPresident,nextPressionFollowmeo nTwitter:http:/twitter.com/cjfeola-----OriginalMessage-----From:friam-bounce [email protected]%5bmailto:[email protected]%5donbehalfofmerlelefkoffsen t:Friday,May14,20101:39PMTo:TheFridayMorningAppliedComplexityCoffeeGroupSubj ect:Re:%5bFRIAM%5dWhatyoucando.merlelefkoffwrote:Sarbajitmissestheboatcomple tely.Thereasonthatthegovernment> <http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704094304575029791336276632.h tmlcjf,recoveringjournalistChristopherJ.FeolaPresident,nextPressionFollowmeo nTwitter:http:/twitter.com/cjfeola-----OriginalMessage-----From:friam-bounce [email protected]%5bmailto:[email protected]%5donbehalfofmerlelefkoffsen t:Friday,May14,20101:39PMTo:TheFridayMorningAppliedComplexityCoffeeGroupSubj ect:Re:%5bFRIAM%5dWhatyoucando.merlelefkoffwrote:Sarbajitmissestheboatcomple tely.Thereasonthatthegovernment> Christopher J. 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tely.Thereasonthatthegovernment> Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/cjfeola <http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704094304575029791336276632.h tmlcjf,recoveringjournalistChristopherJ.FeolaPresident,nextPressionFollowmeo nTwitter:http:/twitter.com/cjfeola-----OriginalMessage-----From:friam-bounce [email protected]%5bmailto:[email protected]%5donbehalfofmerlelefkoffsen t:Friday,May14,20101:39PMTo:TheFridayMorningAppliedComplexityCoffeeGroupSubj ect:Re:%5bFRIAM%5dWhatyoucando.merlelefkoffwrote:Sarbajitmissestheboatcomple tely.Thereasonthatthegovernment> <http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704094304575029791336276632.h tmlcjf,recoveringjournalistChristopherJ.FeolaPresident,nextPressionFollowmeo nTwitter:http:/twitter.com/cjfeola-----OriginalMessage-----From:friam-bounce [email protected]%5bmailto:[email protected]%5donbehalfofmerlelefkoffsen t:Friday,May14,20101:39PMTo:TheFridayMorningAppliedComplexityCoffeeGroupSubj ect:Re:%5bFRIAM%5dWhatyoucando.merlelefkoffwrote:Sarbajitmissestheboatcomple tely.Thereasonthatthegovernment> -----Original Message----- <http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704094304575029791336276632.h tmlcjf,recoveringjournalistChristopherJ.FeolaPresident,nextPressionFollowmeo nTwitter:http:/twitter.com/cjfeola-----OriginalMessage-----From:friam-bounce [email protected]%5bmailto:[email protected]%5donbehalfofmerlelefkoffsen t:Friday,May14,20101:39PMTo:TheFridayMorningAppliedComplexityCoffeeGroupSubj ect:Re:%5bFRIAM%5dWhatyoucando.merlelefkoffwrote:Sarbajitmissestheboatcomple tely.Thereasonthatthegovernment> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf <http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704094304575029791336276632.h tmlcjf,recoveringjournalistChristopherJ.FeolaPresident,nextPressionFollowmeo nTwitter:http:/twitter.com/cjfeola-----OriginalMessage-----From:friam-bounce [email protected]%5bmailto:[email protected]%5donbehalfofmerlelefkoffsen t:Friday,May14,20101:39PMTo:TheFridayMorningAppliedComplexityCoffeeGroupSubj ect:Re:%5bFRIAM%5dWhatyoucando.merlelefkoffwrote:Sarbajitmissestheboatcomple tely.Thereasonthatthegovernment> Of Merle Lefkoff <http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704094304575029791336276632.h tmlcjf,recoveringjournalistChristopherJ.FeolaPresident,nextPressionFollowmeo nTwitter:http:/twitter.com/cjfeola-----OriginalMessage-----From:friam-bounce [email protected]%5bmailto:[email protected]%5donbehalfofmerlelefkoffsen t:Friday,May14,20101:39PMTo:TheFridayMorningAppliedComplexityCoffeeGroupSubj ect:Re:%5bFRIAM%5dWhatyoucando.merlelefkoffwrote:Sarbajitmissestheboatcomple tely.Thereasonthatthegovernment> Sent: Friday, May 14, 2010 1:39 PM <http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704094304575029791336276632.h tmlcjf,recoveringjournalistChristopherJ.FeolaPresident,nextPressionFollowmeo nTwitter:http:/twitter.com/cjfeola-----OriginalMessage-----From:friam-bounce [email protected]%5bmailto:[email protected]%5donbehalfofmerlelefkoffsen t:Friday,May14,20101:39PMTo:TheFridayMorningAppliedComplexityCoffeeGroupSubj ect:Re:%5bFRIAM%5dWhatyoucando.merlelefkoffwrote:Sarbajitmissestheboatcomple tely.Thereasonthatthegovernment> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704094304575029791336276632.h tmlcjf,recoveringjournalistChristopherJ.FeolaPresident,nextPressionFollowmeo nTwitter:http:/twitter.com/cjfeola-----OriginalMessage-----From:friam-bounce [email protected]%5bmailto:[email protected]%5donbehalfofmerlelefkoffsen t:Friday,May14,20101:39PMTo:TheFridayMorningAppliedComplexityCoffeeGroupSubj ect:Re:%5bFRIAM%5dWhatyoucando.merlelefkoffwrote:Sarbajitmissestheboatcomple tely.Thereasonthatthegovernment> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] What you can do. <http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704094304575029791336276632.h tmlcjf,recoveringjournalistChristopherJ.FeolaPresident,nextPressionFollowmeo nTwitter:http:/twitter.com/cjfeola-----OriginalMessage-----From:friam-bounce [email protected]%5bmailto:[email protected]%5donbehalfofmerlelefkoffsen t:Friday,May14,20101:39PMTo:TheFridayMorningAppliedComplexityCoffeeGroupSubj ect:Re:%5bFRIAM%5dWhatyoucando.merlelefkoffwrote:Sarbajitmissestheboatcomple tely.Thereasonthatthegovernment> <http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704094304575029791336276632.h tmlcjf,recoveringjournalistChristopherJ.FeolaPresident,nextPressionFollowmeo nTwitter:http:/twitter.com/cjfeola-----OriginalMessage-----From:friam-bounce [email protected]%5bmailto:[email protected]%5donbehalfofmerlelefkoffsen t:Friday,May14,20101:39PMTo:TheFridayMorningAppliedComplexityCoffeeGroupSubj ect:Re:%5bFRIAM%5dWhatyoucando.merlelefkoffwrote:Sarbajitmissestheboatcomple tely.Thereasonthatthegovernment> merle lefkoff wrote: <http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704094304575029791336276632.h tmlcjf,recoveringjournalistChristopherJ.FeolaPresident,nextPressionFollowmeo nTwitter:http:/twitter.com/cjfeola-----OriginalMessage-----From:friam-bounce [email protected]%5bmailto:[email protected]%5donbehalfofmerlelefkoffsen t:Friday,May14,20101:39PMTo:TheFridayMorningAppliedComplexityCoffeeGroupSubj ect:Re:%5bFRIAM%5dWhatyoucando.merlelefkoffwrote:Sarbajitmissestheboatcomple tely.Thereasonthatthegovernment> <http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704094304575029791336276632.h tmlcjf,recoveringjournalistChristopherJ.FeolaPresident,nextPressionFollowmeo nTwitter:http:/twitter.com/cjfeola-----OriginalMessage-----From:friam-bounce [email protected]%5bmailto:[email protected]%5donbehalfofmerlelefkoffsen t:Friday,May14,20101:39PMTo:TheFridayMorningAppliedComplexityCoffeeGroupSubj ect:Re:%5bFRIAM%5dWhatyoucando.merlelefkoffwrote:Sarbajitmissestheboatcomple tely.Thereasonthatthegovernment> Sarbajit misses the boat completely. <http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704094304575029791336276632.h tmlcjf,recoveringjournalistChristopherJ.FeolaPresident,nextPressionFollowmeo nTwitter:http:/twitter.com/cjfeola-----OriginalMessage-----From:friam-bounce [email protected]%5bmailto:[email protected]%5donbehalfofmerlelefkoffsen t:Friday,May14,20101:39PMTo:TheFridayMorningAppliedComplexityCoffeeGroupSubj ect:Re:%5bFRIAM%5dWhatyoucando.merlelefkoffwrote:Sarbajitmissestheboatcomple tely.Thereasonthatthegovernment> The reason that the government <http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704094304575029791336276632.h tmlcjf,recoveringjournalistChristopherJ.FeolaPresident,nextPressionFollowmeo nTwitter:http:/twitter.com/cjfeola-----OriginalMessage-----From:friam-bounce [email protected]%5bmailto:[email protected]%5donbehalfofmerlelefkoffsen t:Friday,May14,20101:39PMTo:TheFridayMorningAppliedComplexityCoffeeGroupSubj ect:Re:%5bFRIAM%5dWhatyoucando.merlelefkoffwrote:Sarbajitmissestheboatcomple tely.Thereasonthatthegovernment> "may not suppress that speech altogether" is because under U.S. law corporations have the same rights as people. This is the problem, because corporations are NOT by any stretch of the imagination a person. Using the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution to gain the legal financial takeover of the electoral process is a disaster for democracy. What needs to be changed, however, is not the recent Supreme Court decision, but the legal definition of "corporation." sarbajit roy wrote: 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] <mailto:[email protected]> <mailto:[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? 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