7 Feb 2012 8:59 pm
Why don't you answer the following question I've asked of you several times already. What do the following words mean with respect to SCOTUS's Citizen's United decision?Congress shall make no law.....abridging the freedom of speechLet's see how you feel when George Soros gives $100 million to Obama's super PAC. LOLWell gosh, screw the Constitution then.Unlike you, I have never demanded that his or anyone's right to free speech be violated.The following words prohibit Congress's ability to restrict ANY speech, individual, corporate, group, whatever.Congress shall make no law.....abridging the freedom of speechCorporations were never actually declared 'people' by the SCOTUS.It was a clerk (J.C. Bancroft Davis) who erroneously wrote that in his headnotes in the Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company case in 1886. It was not in the actual ruling. As a matter of fact, Chief Justice Morrison Remick Waite said that the court did not wish to hear arguments on the question of corporate personhood.I've never said anyone declared that corporations "were" people; just that for over 200 years, they have enjoyed most of the same Constitutional rights, just like unions, businesses, political groups, associations, etc. etc do.Are you advocating we be able to violate unions' free speech? If not, why not? Are unions "people?"Corporate attorneys picked up the language of Davis's headnote and began to quote it like a mantra.And subsequent courts have incorrectly based decisions on the headnotes and not the actual ruling in the case.BTW J.C. Bancroft Davis was the former president of the Newburgh and New York Railway Company.Can you say conflict of interest?That is one of the many, many risks that come with the democratic process. Removing the restrictions on ordinary Americans' right to contribute in unlimited amounts would overwhelm Special Interest money.And returning to the original Constitutional intent of the Founders of severely limited government would reduce the power and scope of the federal government, making it far less relevant to American's lives.