On Thursday, Jan 21st the American Supreme Court made a decision that NO corporation can be constrained from unlimited influence over our elections. Since some American companies are owned by non-Americans, that means that there is nothing to constrain foreigners nor "enemies" from controlling our government and controlling whom to elect for office. Why bother to vote when real Americans will now have no true voice? Why bother expressing our concerns when the big money guys will have all the control.. control to protect their OWN "interests" by "donations" (bribes) to whomever THEY want in office?
"As Justice John Paul Stevens wrote in his dissent, '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.'"
"Justice Stevens explained that corporations are not themselves members of 'We the People' by whom and for whom our Constitution was established."
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Supreme Court's campaign ruling: a bad day for democracy - (Jan 22, 2010)
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