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McCamy Taylor

(19,240 posts)
Tue Jun 6, 2017, 10:50 PM Jun 2017

How Justices Scalia, Thomas, Alito, Kennedy and Roberts Brought the Russia Bear to Our Door

Never forget what branch of the U.S. government decided that unlimited corporate spending---from any corporation, not just U.S. corporations---was a good idea. Justices Thomas, Scalia, Alito, Roberts and Kennedy--fuck you, the way you fucked your country. You were warned that your ruling in Citizens United opened the door to a hostile take over of our country by a foreign power. Did you care? Not a bit. You are not jurists. You are the lapdogs of the wealthy. If you had any shame, you would all resign---after Trump and Pence are impeached.

https://theintercept.com/2016/08/03/gop-lawyer-chinese-owned-company-us-presidential-politics/

http://billmoyers.com/story/getting-illegal-foreign-money-us-campaigns-easy-experts-say/

https://raskin.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-raskin-introduces-get-foreign-money-out-us-elections-act


"At bottom, the Court's opinion is thus a rejection of the common sense of the American people, who have recognized a need to prevent corporations from undermining self government since the founding, and who have fought against the distinctive corrupting potential of corporate electioneering since the days of Theodore Roosevelt. It is a strange time to repudiate that common sense. While American democracy is imperfect, few outside the majority of this Court would have thought its flaws included a dearth of corporate money in politic."

Last line of Justice Steven's dissenting opinion.

Russia and countries like Russia will be slobbering all over us like a pack of hungry wolves every election until we close the unlimited foreign corporate money in U.S. elections loophole that the Supreme Court deliberately created in Citizens United.

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How Justices Scalia, Thomas, Alito, Kennedy and Roberts Brought the Russia Bear to Our Door (Original Post) McCamy Taylor Jun 2017 OP
Corporations: sociopathic people sharedvalues Jun 2017 #1
Hey Supremes! Corporations? Not people. dchill Jun 2017 #2

sharedvalues

(6,916 posts)
1. Corporations: sociopathic people
Tue Jun 6, 2017, 10:59 PM
Jun 2017

If a person pursued money at all costs and changed their allegiences and agreements as quickly as a new CEO replaces an old, we would call that person a sociopath.


The modern corporation is a sociopath if it is a person. We should regulate the behavior of such entities. Including their political donations.

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