Posted on 06/04/2012 4:35:51 PM PDT by Brandonmark
Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben & Jerry's ice cream and one of the deep pockets behind the Occupy movement, says he is helping launch a campaign this summer to highlight the influence of corporate money in American politics.
Cohen and the Move to Amend advocacy group will distribute rubber stamps with anti-corporate election spending messages so that the politically minded can mark their dollar bills. The end goal: To secure a constitutional amendment saying corporations do not enjoy the same protected rights as individuals and that money is not a form of speech.
Cohen plans to put a giant stamping machine on a national tour in August to encourage "thousands of people to buy rubber stamps and stamp any currency that comes into their possession," he tells Yahoo News. According to his attorney, this is legal, as long as the bills are still legible after the stamping. The Occupy movement tried the stamp tactic last October, defacing dollar bills with infographics that showed the income distribution in American society.
This round of stamps will include "Corporations are not people," "Money is not speech" and "Not to be used for bribing politicians," among other slogans.
The amendment for which Cohen is advocating would reverse decades of Supreme Court decisions, which have extended free speech and other rights to corporations and have ruled that spending money is a form of protected speech. The Citizens United Supreme Court decision in 2010 held that corporations and unions can spend unlimited amounts of money during elections as long as they are not directly funding individual candidates. (This led to the rise of independent super PACs, which have poured millions of dollars into this election cycle alone.) The decision overturned existing campaign finance laws.
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Then of course, there has been this story, floating around lately, about the NAVY naming a ship after HARVEY MILK.
Everyone on board could then sing,
” On the good ship,WOLLIPOP. “
LOL, Unilever which owns Ben and Jerry’s is the largest ice cream maker in the world and only behind P&G and Nestle in size for manufacturers of consumer goods. IOW the very same devil they are protesting.
That's a good photo... it truly sums up the impudent, narcissistic mindset of these morons.
They are children by choice.
What do you figure that every one of 'em is a materialist of the highest order. And if corporations are not people, how much less human(e) is the biggest corporate behemoth of them all, Fed.gov? Starve that beast!
Work at Walmart on the weekends and got an Anti-Walker “Recall Walker” Dollar Bill once, I just took it put in the drawer. When I had gotten down to paying back Dollar Bills for change I just skipped over that one and put it in the bottom of the pile for corporate to turn over to the banks (and the would likely promptly destroy it b/c of the defaced nature). No way in H*ll was I going to give this to another customer (embarrassment’s sake alone) I won’t support the Union-libs!
Nicely done! With the least energy you are having the most possible effect in the real world.
I thought it was illegal to deface money. That’s why these dimwits are handing out the stamps and not stamping the money themselves. They are perfectly willing to let someone else take the fall for them - typical socialist.
The level of ignorance displayed in the signs I can read is cataclysmic. If I were that big a fool, maybe I would also think government employees could make better decisions for me than I can for myself.
OOPs! Good catch and my apologies. Did some homework and it looks like Unilever has adopted a ‘brand equity’ board of directors at Ben & Jerry’s ‘to protect the brand’ so I fully agree and support a message that maybe the parent board at UL Unilever will hear big time, loud and clear. Unilever, makers of Lipton’s Tea and Skippy Peanut Butter etc. cannot have it both ways.
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