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 stocks […]
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. © Ben Sargent
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 video: […]
© Larry Wright 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.
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 […]
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? © Paul Fell
Keith Olbermann on today’s Supreme Court decision:
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 […]
Today, the US Supreme Court gave the US a giant push toward fascism (a corporatist economic system, which believes that the majority is unsuited to govern itself through democracy) by declaring that not only do corporations have free speech rights, but that corporations throwing barrels of money at politicians in order to buy legislation is […]
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia seems to think that being innocent is not enough reason to not be executed, as long as the trial was “full and fair”. In the case in question, seven of the nine witnesses who identified Troy Anthony Davis as the man who shot police officer Allen MacPhail have changed their […]
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