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Supreme Court Rolls Back Corporate Campaign Spending Limits
lorenlal writes "The Supreme Court of the United States must have figured that restrictions on corporate support of candidates was a violation of free speech, or something like that." From the AP story linked above:
"By a 5-4 vote, the court on Thursday overturned a 20-year-old ruling that said corporations can be prohibited from using money from their general treasuries to pay for campaign ads. The decision, which almost certainly will also allow labor unions to participate more freely in campaigns, threatens similar limits imposed by 24 states."
So The Conservatives get huge funding from Corporations.
The Liberals get huge funding from Unions.
What is new here. Both sides are just as corrupt and twised.
The right will steal money out of your right pocket.
The Left will send next to you on you left and reach around and steal money out of your right pocket.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
So The Conservatives get huge funding from Corporations and jesus freaks.
The Liberals get huge funding from Corporations and Unions.
Fixed that for you.
Linux, you magnificent bastard, I read the fucking manual!
Oh nonsense, we all know that conservatives are the ones that want to take away our right to speech ("Fair Speech" thing for radio), our right to own guns, our right to choose ... say ... health care options? ...
It's the liberals who are the ones that want to allow us to make our own choices in all walks of life.
(of course, the small print is that our own choices have to be taken from the choices they give us...)
Yes, sarcasm. :)
I don't agree with the whole corporation-as-person thing and I do'nt like the company-buying-elections thing either, but to say that conservatives are ruining our rights and that liberals are the ones trying to uphold the constitution and the rights therein seems remarkably ignorant of even the way they treat and view the constitution.
What we need are people on the SCOTUS that don't try to use the SCOTUS to make laws by re-interpreting the constitution.
And thank the both of you for your public mutual masturbation session that added nothing of value to the discussion.
Linux, you magnificent bastard, I read the fucking manual!
What the fuck? You're the only idiot who mentioned Nancy Pelosi.
My rights come from the end of my shotgun. Go ahead and try to take my property.
Paying taxes to buy civilization is like paying a hooker to buy love.
Um, no, Brown won because his opponent was a stupid statist bitch who thought Schilling was a Yankees fan. Also, she has no problem with trying to cover up a cop raping his two month old niece with a hot curling iron. Now, while the Massholes might excuse behavior like that in one of the vaunted Kennedy family, Brown wasn't a Kennedy.