...NO MATTER WHAT THE SCOTUS says!
The Supreme Court defended "corporate personhood" ---and I might point out the term "corporate personhood" is found precisely nowhere in the US Constitution-- as they defined the ability of Corporate America to spend as much money as they choose to spend in what amounts to nothing less than influence-peddling, bribery, extortion, perverting the original intent of the founders, and unduly influencing the outcome of any political election, or change the wording of any pending legislation-or have virtually unlimited access to the People's House and Senate, by yesterday's landmark decision under the auspices of the First Amendment's "free speech" guarantees. This decision reversed over 230 years of the original intent of the Founding Fathers and judicial precedence.
It amounts to nothing short of a military coup d'etat, the overthrow of our government, and the surrender of our national sovereignty to the neo-fascist corporatists without even firing the first shot; without the invasion of the first foreign army on our shores since the War of 1812! More under the fold...
The Supreme Court [figuratively] did more damage to our Capital than the British did when they burned it to the ground-or when Adolf Hitler burned the Reichstag and blamed it on the communists, and enacted his Enabling Act of 1933, which effectively scrapped Germany's own Constitution and created only one legal national political party! The only difference now is the corporatists have yet to issue arm bands and rifles to their followers. But they don't need to cry "Ein Reich. Ein Volk. Ein Fuhrer":
THEY HAVE THE FULL FAITH AND CREDIT OF OUR NATIONAL CURRENCY AND GOVERNMENT IN THEIR HANDS-AND AT THEIR BACKS ALREADY!
With the Supreme Court's 5-4 decision, one can easily envision a day when a corporate lobbyist walks into any given Congress member's office with a suitcase containing a certified check for a billion dollars and says something like this:
"There's a bill coming to the floor next week, in support of President Obama's new tax on Wall Street and all the Banks. We oppose it. You have stated that you favor it. I have the authorization by [fill in the blanks here] to spend one billion dollars to run a campaign blitz against you and to unseat you should you run for re-election. However, if you vote our way, we will instead stroke you a check for $100 million earmarked for your re-election war chest. You decide. Is it going to be $100 million for your war chest-or do we unleash hell against you with this $1 billion that my firm has authorized me to make you curse your mother for bringing you into this world? The choice is yours. We'll be back touch after your vote next week. Have a great day and a long prosperous career!"
So, until the scotus(sic) decided to obey their corporate masters and defy the Founding Fathers, extortion and bribery didn't used to be legal. Thanks to the Supreme Court, nothing stands in the way of Corporate America now. They have most effectively thrown the Constitution into the shredder and put the final nails in the coffin of our democracy. The Supreme Court has betrayed us into the hands of liars and thieves, into the hands of traitors who have overthrown our Republic protecting extortion and bribery in the name of free speech!
When my uncle Marty was killed in Vietnam he had no idea that he was fighting for "corporate personhood", for a concept that protects the indefensible tyranny that was to befall this nation by the very ones who swore an oath to defend the Constitution and to fight to the death, if necessary, the tyranny of despots and criminals. No, he like the millions of true American patriots that served before him, believed he was fighting for the ideals of freedom -not corporate indentured servitude and serfdom.
The Supreme Court has shown who are their true masters. Our President and Congress are left no choice but to impeach them and remove the fingerprints of their unspeakable tyranny and unforgiveable treason from our land. A corporation is not a living, breathing human being. They are not people or individual citizens enjoying the rights and privileges of citizens. Our Constitution was never designed or intended to protect felons, traitors, thieves, and other unconvicted felons who think they are princes, but are instead no better than the dead men walking that they wish us all to be like them. My Uncle Marty deserved better!
These intolerable acts, which are void of all common decency, fairness, justice, and prudence cannot be allowed to go un-answered. They shall not stand! If they do stand, then America is no more. It had been better for them had the Founding Fathers never left England. Better for us had they never been born! Better for my Uncle Marty that he had never served and died defending such a corrupt system of government!
Free speech is a right of a free people, those born here and naturalized, who are flesh and blood citizens. It can neither be bought by body-less, heart-less, and soul-less corporations hell-bent for leather to overthrow and strip down to bear bones everything for which this nation stands. Nor can they walk and breathe the air of free men, as long as they cease to remember that the price of freedom is eternal vigilance, not a comodity for sale to the highest bidder!