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Re: Supreme Court rejects limits on corporate spending in electoral campaigns
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Originally Posted by Holy Diver
I just decided that I, Holy Diver, am a corporation....
I'm moving my bank accounts and funds to the Cayman islands where I will be paying ZERO taxes.
If a corporation is a citizen.....then a citizen is a corporation. I am entitled to all the benefits of such.
Holy Diver LLC
PO Box 666
Cayman Islands
And thanks to today's ruling, Holy Diver LLC is now permitted to spend whatever assets you are willing to spend to advocate for whatever political platform you would like to.
By the way, interpreting today's ruling as granting "citizenship" to corporations is too ignorant to address.
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Re: Supreme Court rejects limits on corporate spending in electoral campaigns
Quote:
Originally Posted by Holy Diver
I just decided that I, Holy Diver, am a corporation....
I'm moving my bank accounts and funds to the Cayman islands where I will be paying ZERO taxes.
If a corporation is a citizen.....then a citizen is a corporation. I am entitled to all the benefits of such.
Holy Diver LLC
PO Box 666
Cayman Islands
I invite you to give it a try. I just hope for your sake they have internet access at the prison you'll be residing at.
__________________ “If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else's expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves.” ~ Thomas Sowell
Re: Supreme Court rejects limits on corporate spending in electoral campaigns
Boy, an awful lot of open minded and tolerant liberals who claim to love diversity, the Constitution and free speech really are upset that those ideals have actually been upheld today!
Re: Supreme Court rejects limits on corporate spending in electoral campaigns
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Originally Posted by Wolfpack
And thanks to today's ruling, Holy Diver LLC is now permitted to spend whatever assets you are willing to spend to advocate for whatever political platform you would like to.
By the way, interpreting today's ruling as granting "citizenship" to corporations is too ignorant to address.
sorry...my bad...
Corporations, Unions, and entities like ACORN are now PEOPLE....because we now all share the same rights.
Re: Supreme Court rejects limits on corporate spending in electoral campaigns
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Originally Posted by Wolfpack
Because, as I noted in another post directed at Holy Diver, you seem to think that corporations are robots from outer space or something like that. When a group of people form an entity (be it a business, special interest group or whatever) and the government censors that entity, I consider it to be censorship of the group of people.
If you can't see the obvious distinctions, then I can't possibly make it any clearer. Apparently 100 years of legislators and justices, liberal and conservative alike, we able to see it. If you can't see something as patently obvious as how unlimited financial expenditures would distort the political process, then you're either dim or a hack (or more likely, both).
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Originally Posted by Wolfpack
Well, I'll see your century and raise you a document over 2 centuries old. It's called the United States Constitution. You should try reading it sometime. You'll certainly learn an awful lot.
I know more about the Constitution than you'll ever even delude yourself into believing you know
I'm sure our Founding Fathers were gazing into their crystal ball when they wrote it, and thus were able to compensate for the effects that corporate money has in our electoral process.
Moreover, since the SCOTUS justices who are more conservative in temperament tend to decry judicial activism and subscribe to stare decisis, this would be, well, just about the transparently hypocritical and politically motivated decision in some time, now wouldn't it?
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Originally Posted by Wolfpack
So now I have to "articulate" why free speech is a beneficial development? You have got to be kidding.
<chuckle>
And you actually have the temerity to claim you have the first bit of knowledge about free speech and the Constitution. Free speech is not a blanket or immutable right, and is and has been restricted in a variety of contexts.
A divided Supreme Court on Thursday swept away decades of legislative efforts to restrict the role of corporations in election campaigns, ruling that severe restrictions on corporate spending are inconsistent with the First Amendment's protection of political speech.
Welcome to the Facist States of America!
Unreal....
I thought RIGHTS only applied to individuals....?
My opinion is that corporartions should NOT be allowed to give one cent to campaigns.
__________________ "No one walking this earth knows what is truly righteous"
Last edited by PatriotsReign; 01-21-2010 at 03:01 PM..
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