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If corporations are people, and slavery is illegal, then buying and selling of corporate shares is slavery and must be abolished!

Thursday, February 25, 2010

A fascinating story on Alternet makes an interesting point. The 13th Amendment abolished slavery, so it is illegal to own a person. And yet, if corporations are people with human rights like speech, as the Supreme Court recently ruled, then these corporate persons cannot be bought or sold, so all buying and selling of [...]

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Free Speech – if you have to ask, you can’t afford it.

Monday, February 1, 2010

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Free Speech — free as in freedom, or free as in beer?

Saturday, January 30, 2010

I guess there is a reason why we use the word “free” to mean two different things. Or as the geeks like to put it, there is “free as in freedom, or free as in beer”. But I get the feeling that free speech just got a lot more expensive.

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Murray Hill (Inc.) for Congress

Friday, January 29, 2010

In a wonderfully ironic twist on the recent Supreme Court ruling, an actual corporation has announced it is running for Congress. Why not? If corporations have all the rights of people, why can’t they run for public office? Murray Hill even have an “official” campaign website, so it must be real! Watch their campaign [...]

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The Supreme Good News and Bad News

Thursday, January 28, 2010

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As I pointed out yesterday, the downside for corporations of making it legal for them to spend unlimited amounts of money on electioneering, is that their competitors will be doing the same thing.
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Is the Supreme Court decision really about free speech?

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

I’ve been reading arguments in favor of the Supreme Court decision removing restrictions on political speech by corporations. Some of these arguments come from people or groups I trust, so I was curious to see if they could change my mind about the decision.
First, I should explain that I am not against the Supreme Court [...]

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We The People?

Monday, January 25, 2010

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Free Speech

Monday, January 25, 2010

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Stimulus Package

Sunday, January 24, 2010

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Who pays for all that corporate “free speech”?

Saturday, January 23, 2010

Now that corporate spending to influence lawmakers has been declared to be protected free speech, who is going to end up paying for all those expensive ads and lobbyists, not to mention the cost of buying up the media so we never hear about it?

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Despite his reputation as a blowhard, I can’t think of a single thing Olbermann says here that isn’t true

Friday, January 22, 2010

Keith Olbermann on today’s Supreme Court decision:

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Things you can do about today’s Supreme Court decision

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Upset about this morning’s Supreme Court decision? Want to do something about it?
The website Move to Amend wants to amend the constitution to:

Firmly establish that money is not speech, and that human beings, not corporations, are persons entitled to constitutional rights.
Guarantee the right to vote and to participate, and to have our votes and participation [...]

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