10 Feb 2012 7:36 pm
Which has nothing or next to nothing to do with Citizens United and the way it freed speech and upheld the Constitution.It wasn't about contributions. It was about advertising one's political opinions; i.e political speech.If corporations have all the same Constitutional rights as individuals, then why don't they have 5th Amendment rights?In a 1975 case, United States of America v Steve Sourapas and Crest Beverage Company, the court ruled that corporations do not have 5th Amendment rights.As I have several times noted, they have all or "almost all" of the same rights.Can the police enter a corporation without a warrant? Wiretap its phones? Seize its property?Duuuh.William Renquist saw the danger of too much corporate money in politics.He wrote this in his dissent in the case of the First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti, in which he said that states should be permitted to limit corporate political speech.The country isn't governed by Rehnquist. It's governed by the Constitution. Duuh again.Can a union's speech be restricted? A union is not a person.What do the following words mean?Congress shall make no law.... abridging the freedom of speechIt says uncategorically that no speech can be restricted, not a corporation's, not a union's, not an assocation's.Duuh for the third time.