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Tag Archives: Citizens United v. FEC
Money as “free speech”: Colbert, Maddow, & me
Commentary from Stephen Colbert & Rachel Maddow on the disastrous Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. FED -- & my own observations on how the Republican Party has become just as psychopathic as corporations.
Toward a 28th Amendment: Corporations are not human persons
Sign the Motion to Amend: part of the Campaign to Legalize Democracy's campaign to amend the U.S. Constitution to abolish corporate personhood. It's time to take democracy back.
Government by psychopathy
The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission had granted the fake-persons known as corporations vast new powers of "free speech" by which to further corrupt American democracy.
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The Daily Tweets, 2010-01-22: U.S. Supreme Court sells out democracy to highest corporate bidders
The news that greeted me this morning: the U.S. Supreme Court’s 5-4 activist decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, which further extended the legal fiction that corporations are “persons” by granting their extremely deep special interest pockets pretty much unlimited “free speech” in campaign advertising. This is one I’ve been watching. Democracy in [...]
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