More Trouble Brews for the Cain Campaign

The only thing campaigns produce is informatio¬n for distributi¬on. Muzzling grass roots communications does not reduce the influence of corporate special interests in politics. Individuals and grass roots organizations have formed 527 and 501(c)(4) corporations to get around some, not all, of the regulations that abridge the participation by flesh and blood persons in American politics.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishm¬ent of religion, or prohibitin¬g the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances¬.

Campaign laws exempt the corporate press, because the 1st Amendment prohibits abridging corporatio¬n’s freedom of speech and the press. But unless corporatio¬ns have taken up worshiping God; those rights were intended for flesh and blood?

2 USC 431 (9) (B) (i) The term "expenditure" does not include any news story, commentary, or editorial distributed through the facilities of any broadcasting station, newspaper, magazine, or other periodical publication, unless such facilities are owned or controlled by any political party, political committee, or candidate;

If the United States Supreme Court defined freedom of religion using the same logic that campaign laws use to define a free press only the church or synagogue "as an institutio¬n" would enjoy freedom of religion, not its parishione¬rs!

To restore the 'equal rights' of flesh and blood persons and grass roots corporations the language of the press exemption, above, should be modified to read: “The term expenditure does not include any news story, commentary, or editorial distributed by any citizen, citizens group, broadcasting station, newspaper, magazine, or other periodical publication.”

BenDoubleCrossed of FL 1:13PM November 02, 2011