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Dem Rep. Hank Johnson: Amend Constitution to Restrict Freedom of Speech
CNSNews.com ^ | Nov 29 2012 | Eric Scheiner

Posted on 11/29/2012 10:44:38 AM PST by abishai

(CNSNews.com) - Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) says, “corporations control the patterns of thinking” in the United States and that the Bill of Rights to the Constitution should be amended so that the government is given the power to restrict freedom of speech.

"We need a constitutional amendment to allow the legislature to control the so-called free speech rights of corporations," said Johnson.

“These corporations, along with the people they support, other millionaires who they’re putting into office, are stealing your government. They’re stealing the government and the U.S. Supreme Court was a big enabler with the Citizens United case,” Johnson said at the Annesbrooks HOA candidate Forum in Georgia in October.

“They control the patterns of thinking," said Johnson. "They control the media. They control the messages that you get. So, you are being taught to hate your government--don’t want government, but keep your hands off of my Medicare by the way. I mean, we are all confused people and we’re poking fingers at each other saying, well you’re black, you’re Hispanic, immigration, homosexuals. You know, we’re lost on the social issues, abortion, contraception.

“And these folks," Johnson said, "are setting up a scenario where they’re privatizing every aspect of our lives as we know it. So, wake up! Wake up! Let’s look at what’s happening. We need a constitutional amendment to allow the legislature to control the so-called free speech rights of corporations.”

The U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United vs. Federal Elections Commission is that corporations have a right to freedom of speech, including the right to speak about politicians and federal officeholders during an election year.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Politics/Elections; US: Georgia
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To: ripley

So what you are saying is that the nutjobs who voted for this nutjob want to limit free speech as well? Then yes we are headed for some major trouble and conflict that won’t end well.


21 posted on 11/29/2012 10:59:28 AM PST by abishai
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To: Graybeard58

Dumbest - Hank Johnson thinking Guam would tip over? bwaaa too funny if it wasn’t so serious. I don’t know how that military guy kept a straight face.

What about the Gwen Moore from my state of Wisconsin, Sheila Jackson Lee who said Rover landed on Mars. NONE of those people are worthy of representing this great nation.


22 posted on 11/29/2012 10:59:32 AM PST by WaterWeWaitinFor (This great nation has chosen socialism over freedom and our constitution. How sad.)
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To: abishai

Rep Hank Johnson “I don’t want folks to know that I ordered up Debbie Does Dallas.”

http://regator.com/p/254160010/quoted_rep_hank_johnson_doesnt_want_you_to/


23 posted on 11/29/2012 11:00:32 AM PST by smoothsailing
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To: abishai
Let me guess without even reading the article - Corpations YES, Unions will have an exemption since they are not corporations !! /sarc

God I hate the RAT party and everything - I mean everything - they stand for. Neve since CW I has this country been so divided. Split the county apart and let up pick where we choose to live - the LIBERAL nation or the CONSERVATIVE nation.
24 posted on 11/29/2012 11:00:53 AM PST by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: abishai

He wants to restrict freedom to make us more free.


25 posted on 11/29/2012 11:00:57 AM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: abishai
How about putting the same limitations on freedom of the press too? Freedom of the press obviously applied to only hand operated single sheet presses, not to corporate owned high speed presses. The New York Times Company would only be able to print what Obama personally approves, so basically it would be no change at all.
26 posted on 11/29/2012 11:04:47 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Big Bird is a brood parasite: laid in our nest 43 years ago and we are still feeding him.)
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To: abishai

It is difficult to imagine such massive ignorance is anywhere near a position of power ....


27 posted on 11/29/2012 11:04:58 AM PST by Popman
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To: ripley

“...He ain’t no nutjob. He’s just representative of the people who elected him.”

Absolutely. I’ve posted multiple occasions about the void in the gray matter in the craniums of the Liberals, and this is a perfect example. These people don’t understand self rule. They only understand being ruled by rulers such as a Monarchy, Matriarchy, Dictator, Strongman, or Mom.

Johnson IS as you say representative of his constituency. They voted for the idiot, because they are idiots that don’t get it regarding Freedom, Liberty, individualism any better than apparently he does. They want to be ruled.


28 posted on 11/29/2012 11:05:04 AM PST by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will, they ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: abishai

I propose a new amendment. No one who voted for this idiot can ever vote again anywhere in the US.


30 posted on 11/29/2012 11:07:47 AM PST by morphing libertarian
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To: abishai

...so this guy and his friends just won in a landslide and now he’s complaining that evil corporations are spending money to prevent him and his friends from getting elected?

And his solution is to limit free speech.

...it will probably pass...


31 posted on 11/29/2012 11:11:04 AM PST by Tzimisce (What do you do when every every branch of the government is corrupt and aligned against you?)
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To: ripley
He ain’t no nutjob. He’s just representative of the people who elected him.

And his predecessor, I believe, was Cynthia McKinney. Says a lot about the people in his district.
32 posted on 11/29/2012 11:12:36 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia (Be careful of believing something just because you want it to be true.)
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Hank, good luck of getting 2/3 of both houses of Congress and 38 states to “restrict” free speech.. Our founders where wise men..


33 posted on 11/29/2012 11:13:44 AM PST by KevinDavis (And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.)
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To: abishai

Another rat who wants to change the rules because he doesn’t like them....


34 posted on 11/29/2012 11:20:54 AM PST by illiac (If we don't change directions soon, we'll get where we're going)
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To: abishai

This is very scary stuff. Yes, this guy is ignorant and has said some ridiculous things, but the fact that words like this can be spoken by someone who officially sits on the US Congress, the fact that ideas like this could be voiced by a representative of our government, without an immediate universal backlash and repudiation by his colleagues, the MSM, and pretty much every other American is astounding and very, very concerning. For too long we have tolerated ideas and criticisms that were/are outrageous. Each and every time something is said or done that should be loudly repudiated, and we don’t repudiate it, we are allowing another crack in our foundation to develop and/or spread. It’s far past time to start pushing back.

The push back has to be just as far reaching as the ideas they are pushing, and should be targeted at their sacred cows.


35 posted on 11/29/2012 11:28:07 AM PST by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: abishai

At least we know how Georga’s 4th congressional district AKA Atalanta feels about Free speech:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia%27s_4th_congressional_district

If they don’t want it that is fine with me. I think Georgia should get started curtailing their political speech. It is after all destructive to the political process in Georgia as well as the rights and Liberty’s of other Georgians(given the way the 4th congressional district votes this fact could hardly be more self-evident)

They don’t care about their own free speech rights so why should we?


36 posted on 11/29/2012 11:36:07 AM PST by Monorprise
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To: abishai

I believe he is right jst going about it wrong! the bill of rights was written for individual people not corporations or committees or unions but only for individual breathing U.S. citizen human being. If they can legally vote in an election, then they have freedom of speech. A corporation is incapable of speaking. It must have somone speak for it.

The problem started when a federal court expanded freem of speech to corporations and we have been in very serious trouble ever since. The federal courts has to reverse some prior opinion. A constitutional amendment is not the was to go.


37 posted on 11/29/2012 11:36:46 AM PST by dirtymac (Now is the for all good men to come to the aid of their country.)
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To: abishai

corporations are a creation of the State therefore the State has the authority to restrict their activities.

And contrary to what Romney says corporations are not people. They do not have constitutional rights.

Want to band together in a group to help get your political message out? Do it off the clock and without the money I’ve invested in your coroporation.


38 posted on 11/29/2012 11:42:05 AM PST by ksen
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To: illiac

“Another rat who wants to change the rules because he doesn’t like them....”

Still an improvement on most rats who would rater ignore the rules than change them by means of the correct process.


40 posted on 11/29/2012 11:42:29 AM PST by Monorprise
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