Yhea, I (for the most part) agree. 
Posted on 01/26/2010 8:34:13 AM PST by Beloved Levinite
Obama turned AVS off on the credit card campaign donation system, the election was bought and paid for by foreign money from out of the country, period. Why should the presidency be any different, in America, everything is for sale to highest bidder (not saying I’m happy with it). I’m just objective enough to admit what I see.
In before.
When the first Amendment says "Congress shall make no law ... restricting freedom of speech" it doesn't give an allowance for Congress to restrict corporate speech. You know what I find hard to understand? The idea that corporations are some terrible bogeymen that we should fear if they somehow decide to use part of their funds (for which they are accountable to their shareholders) to pay for political ads, but unions should be free to use funds extorted from their members (for which they are accountable to nobody) to pay for political ads.
Yhea, I (for the most part) agree.
Corporate personhood is a large package that comes with the ability to be taxed; the ability to be penalized under the law; the ability to own property and the ability to freely express themselves with commercials, newsletter, and political donations. It would be very difficult, if not outright impossible, to throw out part of that without throwing out the rest. Especially given that no taxation without representation is supposed to be one of the big founding concepts of our nation.
Here’s your answer.
The shakedown of American Businesses started in CA about 10 years ago with Unions lead by what would become SEIU demanding they hire union employees or they would make demands at stockholders meetings which would damage the company. My company was one of those targeted.
CalPers and SEIU use their pension funds to capture a large enough voting block to bring votes to the floor such as expensing stock options and then pack the room with union members to ram through the vote.
With McCain Feingold in place, private companies are legally prevented from using their funds from fighting back or supporting candidates with disagree with Unions.
The end result was SEIU now controls much of the janitoral services in most high tech companies in CA and the additional union fee $$$ goes directly into funding union supporting candidates such as Obama.
Michelle Malkin points some of this out in her book on Corruption however the impact to American companies is not well known unless you are an insider (like me).
If the first three paragraphs give any indication of the rest of the article, then I won't waste my time.
Good post!
You are right on: If a “corporation” can be taxed, then a “corporation” has free speech rights.
ALL CAPS MAKE YOU SOUND LIKE A NUT CASE
Wow! Above ALL NATURAL LAWS? Does that mean they can stop paying the second highest corporate tax rates in the world?
Guess what your church and your NRA and Sierra Club are among those "corporations".
The government was arguing for the power to ban books and films. They deserved to lose on that account alone. I didn't see the free speech issue mentioned in that long long rant
I realize it’s a double-edged sword. But if you let these commies limit freedom of speech, they will eventually kill the whole thing. ALL corporations need the ability to freely stick up for themselves. Their doing so is not really the problem...the ignorance of those not being able to disguish between the commie progressives influence and those that believe in our Constitutional Republic is the problem.
When have we EVER been free of these international corporations having influence? Mostly NEVER. How do you think Ayatollah Obama got elected? Money laundried through corporations and PAC’s, and his Muslim mafia friends in Chicago.
Isn't this precisely the issue? These frauds want to have the freedom to corrupt the system without recrimination so long as they can control their opposition. Speech is speech and it is protected by the Constitution.
Fortunately we still have a majority on the Court who accept the rudiments of the Constitution as inviolable.
The blathering claptrap of Obama and his minions is a canker in the mouth of the body politic.
The government argued for the power to ban books, films and anything else that was “feloniously political”. Imagine if this government banned Limbaugh’s or Levin’s book, book publishers are corporations after all.
Corporate Rights and Property Rights are Human Rights: Why it’s a Mistake to Conflate a Right with the Means Used to Exercise it. [Free Republic]
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