"Their real complaint is not with the Supreme Court or its ruling in Citizens United, but with the First Amendment itself, which prohibits their efforts to empower government to micromanage political debate." -- Paul Sherman regarding opponents of the CU decision.
Couldn't have said it better. Too bad they didn't strike down the rest of McCain-Feingold. > > On Aug 4, 2011, at 9:20 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > > I'd like to see the SCOTUS remove even more impediments to the first > > amendment. > > Absolutely. Since we've now declared that Corporations are People, and should > be able to donate anonymously to political campaigns (since, you know, making > them reveal who they are might subject them to reactions form actual human > persons, who are now second-class citizens), why not just say fuck it. > > If Money == Speech let's just have the Treasury auction off political office > to the highest bidder. > > It's where we're at now anyway. > > This will let our natural Galtian Overlords cut out the middleman and rule us > the way they're ordained by God and Ayn to rule us: as worthless sacks of > disposable consumer, mere impediments to their greed, and the rights of > > After all, we're close to played out as a cash crop, and they've carefully > cultivated a much larger crop of consumers in China where that pesky > "government" knows to get the fuck out of the way, and simply ensure that the > human crop doesn't get ideas in it's pretty little heads about 'running' > things. > > Democracy is an impediment to Capitalism. Freedom's just another word for "I > got Mine, Jack! Fuck You!" > > Stupid morons don't believe in Darwin but worship Social Darwinism. > > > > > > That $1 million was probably just on of his kids spending his weekly > > allowance. > > Yep. Earned by "Job Creation" : > > <http://tinyurl.com/3oa6dzb> > > > #notintendedtobeafactualstatement > > -- > Bruce Johnson > > Francis Drouillard, PE Novato, CA 94945 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "StrataList-OT" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/stratalist-ot?hl=en.
