It is so important that we keep alive in our consciousness and continue to help spread the word about the devastating Supreme Court decision of January 21st, the effect of which will be devastating beyond what I can express here in words if we do nothing fight it. Peace ~ Molly
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The infamous Dred Scott decision stood for the proposition that people (slaves) are property.
Today's mirror image of the Dred Scott decision, with the Orwellian name "Citizens United," stands for the proposition that Property is People.
This decision, too, will live in infamy.
Corporations (which are merely property interests) are not the same as, and do not properly have the full political speech rights like individual human beings.Human beings are "endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights".
It's always been an axiom of the law that corporations DO NOT HAVE inalienable rights.
But now, even a 100% vote of both Houses signed by the President is insufficient to re-regulate corporations, at least without the consent of the US Supreme Court, because they grounded their ruling in an interpretation of the Constitution. They've weaponized the Constitution and are using it to tie the hands of what is rightfully the only sovereign and ultimate power in the USA - We the People - forcing us to be subjecting to unlimited propaganda all protected by the new-fashioned First Amendment.
No, it doesn't matter if unions will also be able to engage in unlimited propaganda, it doesn't matter even if they weren't dwarfed in financial power by corporations.
Whether people are deemed property or property is deemed "people" - either way people are enslaved to huge machines of property that do not and cannot know the meaning of the word "democracy."
Today's decision is the reverse echo of Dred Scott. Instead of People are Property, it's Properties Are People. That was BS during the time of Dred Scott, and it's still BS today.
Originally posted January 21st, 2010 here:
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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. ~ C. S. Lewis
The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations.... In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival. ~ Noam Chomsky
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Thanks for bringing this out into the open... as so many other "persons" are now doing... since we are inundated every micro-second with the ideology of corporatism via every sort of media, it will take each and every "person's" effort to counter the tidal wave.... to "subvert the dominant paradigm"...
I recall -- as you might also remember -- that in our youth we were told "your generation will be the ones who will change the world for the better...."
Now is our chance to show that these admonitions given in our younger years must be heeded... and any great or small gesture in this direction by all of us together creates a ground swell... a subversion of the Wasteland and a preference for the Pure Land....
I honor that effort and thank you for sharing in it....
May we be filled with lovingkindness
May we be well
May we be peaceful and at ease
May we be happy
Peace and Blessings
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