tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25168606.post7950357080200983326..comments2023-10-19T04:46:10.308-05:00Comments on Griper Blade: Corporations are People TooWiscohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12013881728915462943noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25168606.post-85980029751641256362010-01-23T18:50:48.875-06:002010-01-23T18:50:48.875-06:00I've decided I'm not finished.
Reading th...I've decided I'm not finished.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/09pdf/08-205.pdf" rel="nofollow">Reading the text</a> of the majority opinion, the five right wing justices draw precedent from THEIR OWN opinions recorded in previous cases. They do this dozens and dozens of times throughout in a way that's comically tragic. They really think highly of themselves and their opinion is saturated in delusional self-importance.<br /><br />Justice Stevens calls them out on it in a way that only a man of colorfully aged prudence and sound awareness can offer.<br /><br />The dissenting opinion, written by Justice Stevens, reveals a right wing majority court that needs to be impeached. They are out of their minds and out of control. It's like watching the U.S. Supreme Court being taken over in a violent fascist coup. They've asserted ideology through arrogance and inserted it in to the constitution on false pretenses-- when restraint was not only warranted, but demanded.<br /><br />Stevens noted throughout that the majority on the court could have, and should have, as precedent and a lower district ruled, made their judgement based not only on the narrow scope the case was understood and being heard, but they should have ruled on the specific question in the case-- about whether a BCRA §203 was unconstitutional as it applies to the makers of <i>Hillary</i> and whether funds from corporate and union general treasuries could be used in political campaigns. The right wing justices had to manufacture the case wielding the gavel like a petulant child throwing an intellectual tantrum because they don't want to play by the rules, precedent, or even the game. They threw the Monopoly pieces to corporations and called their new game, "Boardgame."<br /><br /> Justice Stevens wrote: Under the majority’s view, I suppose it may be a First Amendment problem that corporations are not permitted to vote, given that voting is, among other things, a form of speech.52<br />In short, the Court dramatically overstates its critiqueof identity-based distinctions, without ever explaining why corporate identity demands the same treatment as individual identity. <b><i>Only the most wooden approach to theFirst Amendment could justify the unprecedented line itseeks to draw.</i></b><br /><br />Read pg. 119-130-something. Stevens really shows how the right wing justices on the court seem to really get a kick out of being radical sons of bitches.<br /><br />The court's opinion, majority v. dissent, would be one of the most entertaining exchanges in recent Supreme Court history, if it wasn't for the fact that democracy is now weakened as a result by the ability of corporations to flood campaigns with billions of dollars worth of ads-- greatly undermining the already shaken confidence and broken trust the electorate has in the electoral process.<br /><br />It's a big problem that is only going to worsen after this.<br /><br />Confusion, chaos, and paranoia-- corporate campaign propaganda is based on years of psychological research and development to lure consumers.<br /><br />There will be so many new corporate entities and spiderweb subsidiaries-- legally <i>birthed</i>-- to specifically confound and distract the political process-- who already know too well how to <i>make you laugh and cry and kiss three bucks goodbye</i> and drink Dr. Pepper and smoke Lucky Strikes and vote for Sarah Palin.<br /><br />It's going to get silly, man.Mnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25168606.post-12456012733110957862010-01-22T23:08:04.268-06:002010-01-22T23:08:04.268-06:00Remember, four of those nutzoid justices, Scalia, ...Remember, four of those nutzoid justices, Scalia, Roberts, Alito, Thomas, recently ruled in Caperton V. Massey, a case where the court <i>narrowly</i> ruled 5-4 in favor of Due fucking Process, of all things, in what was essentially a "buying of a judge" case originating from the CEO of Massey Coal spending $3 million dollars worth of campaign contributions on a judge in West Virgina who later refused to recuse himself in a case where Massey was looking to have a case on appeal overturned because he was being sued by a dude named Caperton for $50 million.<br /><br />Those four justices are dangerous. Thomas is certifiable.<br /><br /> Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY): The court took a step toward “restoring the First Amendment rights [of corporations and unions]. … By previously denying this right, the government was picking winners and losers.”<br /><br />Drooling psycho and enemy of freedom on the inside-- calm, smiling, prick on the outside.<br /><br />Greedy capitalists bastards will now do political war openly on the range while we're reduced to battlefield stenographers and pencil sketch artists documenting the demise of the people's voice and influence in their own affairs once and for all.<br /><br />Money=speech. Clark Griswold can put his wallet away.<br /><br />These are dangerous forces to recognize and protect under the 1st amendment umbrella.<br /><br />A constitutional amendment will eventually have to settle this misreading of founding intent.<br /><br />This is why EVERY election matters. One GOP prick gets elected and he elevates more pricks to higher posts and those pricks fill future vacancies and appoint an all new batch of pricks in perpetual lock-step prickdom. <br /><br />Lifetime appointments...Mnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25168606.post-20276985407449518712010-01-22T12:26:05.012-06:002010-01-22T12:26:05.012-06:00See, sometimes we do see eye to eye. This is the b...See, sometimes we do see eye to eye. This is the biggest "fuck you" to the American people that I have ever seen. As you know I am a greedy capitalist bastard and yet you and I both think this is horse shit. Lets hope that means there will be enough political will to deal with this quickly.Steven Marty Granthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12025403178005766557noreply@blogger.com