The Supreme Court says NO to the people -- again

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http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_5992.shtml


At a dinner party, an ever-so-proper aristocrat who had been at the British evacuation of Dunkirk 60 years ago, remained tightlipped despite intense questioning from the other guests about what he had seen there.

Finally, he shuddered at the memory and exclaimed, “The noise, my dear, and the people!”

An apocryphal story, perhaps, but the high-falutin’ Supreme Court of the United States has the same attitude toward America -- this would be such a great country if it wasn’t for all the noise and people.

Bad enough that last week the court narrowly redefined Miranda rights in such a way that seems to say that if one of those aforementioned people is arrested and remains silent about their right to remain silent, anything you do say, if you say something, can and will be held against you. An interpretation as worthy of Lewis Carroll as it is George Orwell.

But of course such reasoning is not surprising from a court that ruled earlier this year that corporations are people, too -- really BIG people -- whether you’re a major banking entity bilking the little guy for billions or a petrochemical giant obscenely filling the Gulf of Mexico with crude, like Rabelais’ Gargantua, relieving himself from the towers of Notre Dame and drowning the city of Paris.

The Supreme Court’s infamous Citizens United ruling cited free speech as its reason, giving corporate America the right to pour unlimited money into political and issues campaigns, lavishing cash on whichever candidates run fastest to do their bidding. This week, the Supremes went even further, proving once again that when it comes to American politics and government, money talks, and it does so with the biggest, loudest megaphone dollars can buy.

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We need a constitutional amendment rejecting the anti-democratic course this Supreme Court has chosen. An amendment that establishes an equitable, public campaign financing system that levels the playing field for anyone who wants to run for office, no matter what their income or bankrolling connections. And we need it now.
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the root of our problems are at the Supreme Court. the neo con justices. doing their dirty work starting with the 2000 coup d'etat. (well, it started before that but that was the biggie)

and now giving everything, power, to the corporation barons.

the buck stops with the supremes and the supremes are in the power of the neo con justices who have caused all the problems re: what you just read up on this thread.

(the neo cons in every US Dept. are causing problems every day.)


I would hope that there are US lawyers working on how to get the neo con justices out of the S.C. bldg. and into prison.

we should throw oil tar balls at them.

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1. kicking back to pg.1

nt

[TheKentuckian]

2. a bumpity

[el_bryanto]

3. So Alito, Scalia, Thomas and Roberts should be in jail for their rulings?

Interesting theory.

Bryant

[nichomachus]

4. Jail is such an ugly word -- "re-education facility"

[el_bryanto]

5. Yes - that has the ring of sanity about it. n/t

[bvar22]

6. You can thank the "Blue Dog" Democrats ...

for Alito and Roberts.

Google "Gang of 14".