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Thread #126720   Message #2818882
Posted By: Bill D
22-Jan-10 - 05:37 PM
Thread Name: BS: Supreme Court Kills Democratic Party...
Subject: RE: BS: Supreme Court Kills Democratic Party...
"Are you going to lead the charge to repeal the Freedom of Speech Amendment to the Constitution?"

That question is very like:"Are you going to keep beating your wife?"
It assumes that curtailing the influence of corporate power in on the same place as stifling individual freedoms.

I submit that, no matter how you parse it, a corporation's 'speech' is ultimately the voice of one, or a very few, directors OF that corporation, and thus represents a vested interest getting an unfair advantage. Constraining that is essentially what has BEEN the principle for the last 100 years. Changing it is purely a rationalized way of enlarging certain interests influence and weakening the collective influence of individuals.