Supreme Court Ruling Empowers Corporations More Than Labor Unions

“Corporate America” backed by their handmaidens, the “knuckle-dragger” four “Supremes” (plus one delusional Justice Kennedy) say as the Mafiosi before executing their enemies: “Nothing personal, this is just business!”

The extreme right wing-nuts of our country, along with the tens of thousands of Washington corporate lobbyists are popping the corks with the result of the latest Supreme Court decision on corporate fundraising contributions along with expectant political candidates that they can now with glee, purchase outright.

The four Neanderthals put on the Court based on their foam at the mouth “anti-political activism and issue relevant” decisions’ platforms gave a huge slap in the face to all Americans.

This latest decision trashes any semblance of “balance” between the repressive overwhelming financial power of corporate America, predatory capitalism and the common people.

Who in their right mind could imagine that along with mean-spirited politics of the last 30 years that now, whatever corporations wish they will get? And, make no mistake; it won’t be “in our interests.” To believe that you only have to have some knowledge of how (creeping, friendly) fascism works and believed that the German people along with democratic principles of pre-Nazi Germany would stem the flow of any injustices cast on them under Nazi fascism, after their “final settlement” with German corporations and their Supreme Court.

This country desperately needs electoral reform, but reform that includes barring corporations from acting as “individuals” which is farcical at best.

We are being brutally bound and gagged, cast into a corner, by Justices that advocate more anti-democratic corporate rule over our Constitution and Bill of Rights.

We are corporate political prisoners dumped into a Gulag.

No phrase in the Constitution says corporations are humans or individuals. Corporations are “created” by statute, not by natural birth. The interpretation came about through very perverse judicial neglect (Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad). The perversion was instigated by a court reporter and never officially corrected.

Anyone who argues that corporations should be treated as persons and have the same rights would also have to accept that corporations should then be allowed to run for office, hold office, to vote in elections, and if proved to have acted unlawfully, be prosecuted under criminal law.

If accepted dogma that corporations are “individuals” with the same rights as humans, then why was this case brought before the Supreme Court? It would have been natural accepted fact that corporations did have the same rights.

James Madison, “The stock-jobbers will become the praetorian band of the Government, at once its tool and its tyrant; bribed by its largesses and overawing it by its clamours and combinations”

Justice Steven’s dissent, "At bottom, the Court's opinion is thus a rejection of the common sense of the American people, who have recognized a need to prevent corporations from undermining self government since the founding, and who have fought against the distinctive corrupting potential of corporate electioneering since the days of Theodore Roosevelt. It is a strange time to repudiate that common sense. While American democracy is imperfect, few outside the majority of this Court would have thought its flaws included a dearth of corporate money in politics."

Law should be a combination of precedent and common sense.

This was a decision by those who themselves virulently condemn “judicial activism.”

sierra7 of CA 1:54PM March 06, 2010