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Old 11-15-2010, 06:53 AM   #1
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Following the Supreme Court decision implicitly granting corporations the right to free speech (by determining that political spending is a kind of speech), a corporation has decided to take what it believes to be “democracy’s next step”: It is running for Congress.
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Old 11-15-2010, 02:03 PM   #2
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With more than a twinge of irony, Murray Hill Incorporated, a liberal public relations firm, recently announced that it planned to run in the Republican primary in Maryland’s 8th Congressional District.
Free speech is apparently for unions and media corporations only.
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Free speech is apparently for unions and media corporations only.
Corporations exist to serve the needs of the People. That includes unions, IMO. People are individual piles of organs and tissue wrapped in skin. The Constitution and the Bill of Rights is for the People.
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Corporations exist to serve the needs of the People. That includes unions, IMO. People are individual piles of organs and tissue wrapped in skin. The Constitution and the Bill of Rights is for the People.
That was the reason for the suit. The restrictions did not apply to media organizations (for-profit-corporations) or PACs. Some of them are foreign corporations (any concerns about that, people?)

It was unequal treatment.

Note: I incorrectly included unions in my previous post. They, along with other non-profits were under the rule that was being challenged in the suit.
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Ah, we drift ever close to my prediction: The House of Shareholder Representatives (and of course, the "upper house," the Board Senate.)
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Ah, we drift ever close to my prediction: The House of Shareholder Representatives (and of course, the "upper house," the Board Senate.)
It is not really a corporation running for office, it is a political advocacy group trying to make a point. Kind of a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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It is not really a corporation running for office, it is a political advocacy group trying to make a point. Kind of a self-fulfilling prophecy.
I thought the same thing...

I feel helpless about this subject. Tilting against this windmill feels like being a woman in Afghanistan trying to buy a bikini...what's the fuggin point, huh?
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I thought the same thing...

I feel helpless about this subject. Tilting against this windmill feels like being a woman in Afghanistan trying to buy a bikini...what's the fuggin point, huh?
Pesky thing that first amendment, huh? Really sucks how everyone gets to practice it - even all those azzholes you disagree with.
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Pesky thing that first amendment, huh? Really sucks how everyone gets to practice it - even all those azzholes you disagree with.
Yeah, if you're talking about people.
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Yeah, if you're talking about people.
Well who the heck is running corporations? Dogs? Cats? Robots?
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