Frankenstein Allowed Free Speech
The Supreme Court recently struck down laws that prevented corporations from campaigning for political candidates. That the Supreme Court can view corporations as citizens speaks of the blinders that too often guide these nine people down a road to ill-conceived or misguided justice. It is almost as if they were saying, "We are tired of your First Amendment lawsuits. We are going to take free speech and wrap you up in it so tightly that it will suffocate you."
Now that corporations have freedom of speech, what else can we bestow on them? Shall we give corporations the right to vote? Shall we banish them to a desert in Arizona when they are found guilty of a crime? If a corporation is an entity with unalienable rights, what about other entities? Do we welcome the Vatican and the rich Muslims into our political arena? I can see why the justices are confused for we bail out and subsidize the corporations like they were relatives. We baptize them into being and dissolve them at their end. We allow them to marry but insist on calling it a merger. We take pride when they multiply in number and we revere their very names as we nickname them into our psyche. We feel a sense of belonging when they hire us and a sense of betrayal when they let us go. The uncanny similarities could easily mislead the unwary.
Justice Scalia has been known to say that Congress should rewrite the constitution to make it do exactly what they want and not leave it to Supreme Court interpretation. However, an easier procedure is to have the Supreme Court interpret the constitution based on current mores and practices. Can they not feel the pulse of the nation? Can they not see that the American public has never liked a bully; that we elected a president who was saying no to lobbyists. Still, they persist in these lunacies and all we can is howl.
Look, Justices, we still have the checks in place--if it is seen that you're in need of a correction, the congress can convene to modify the Constitution for today's world. By the way, and just as an aside, do the justices have to recuse themselves if they own any stock or intend to? How many of us are just going to play the stock market now by picking only the wealthiest corporations? After all, with Uncle
Sam on your side, how can you lose?
Some say that this matter matters not. They say the rich will prevail whether as human or corporate beings, that money is the ultimate master of our fate, the captain of our souls. Hard to argue against this but I must point out to corporations who might try to disenfranchise the public, that we, the people, are so much bigger and, collectively, we also have money to influence an election and, when poor, we can still wield a nasty boycott against unruly entities. 1/26/2010, 9:57 PM
Now that corporations have freedom of speech, what else can we bestow on them? Shall we give corporations the right to vote? Shall we banish them to a desert in Arizona when they are found guilty of a crime? If a corporation is an entity with unalienable rights, what about other entities? Do we welcome the Vatican and the rich Muslims into our political arena? I can see why the justices are confused for we bail out and subsidize the corporations like they were relatives. We baptize them into being and dissolve them at their end. We allow them to marry but insist on calling it a merger. We take pride when they multiply in number and we revere their very names as we nickname them into our psyche. We feel a sense of belonging when they hire us and a sense of betrayal when they let us go. The uncanny similarities could easily mislead the unwary.
Justice Scalia has been known to say that Congress should rewrite the constitution to make it do exactly what they want and not leave it to Supreme Court interpretation. However, an easier procedure is to have the Supreme Court interpret the constitution based on current mores and practices. Can they not feel the pulse of the nation? Can they not see that the American public has never liked a bully; that we elected a president who was saying no to lobbyists. Still, they persist in these lunacies and all we can is howl.
Look, Justices, we still have the checks in place--if it is seen that you're in need of a correction, the congress can convene to modify the Constitution for today's world. By the way, and just as an aside, do the justices have to recuse themselves if they own any stock or intend to? How many of us are just going to play the stock market now by picking only the wealthiest corporations? After all, with Uncle
Sam on your side, how can you lose?
Some say that this matter matters not. They say the rich will prevail whether as human or corporate beings, that money is the ultimate master of our fate, the captain of our souls. Hard to argue against this but I must point out to corporations who might try to disenfranchise the public, that we, the people, are so much bigger and, collectively, we also have money to influence an election and, when poor, we can still wield a nasty boycott against unruly entities. 1/26/2010, 9:57 PM
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