Posted on 11/30/2012 4:44:04 PM PST by MissesBush
ATLANTA (CBS Atlanta) - A Democratic representative is calling for an amendment to the United States Constitution that would allow for some legislative restriction of freedom of speech.
“We need a constitutional amendment that would allow the legislature to control the so-called free speech rights of corporations,” Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA) was quoted as saying by CNS News.
He reportedly made these comments while speaking at the Annesbrooks HOA candidate Forum held last month.
In a video obtained by the website, Johnson asserts that “corporations control … patterns of thinking.”
“They control the media. They control the messages that you get,” he added. “And these folks … 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.”
Corporations and unions are protected under the First Amendment of the Constitution because of the ruling in “Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission,” which found that a state law prohibiting corporations from making political campaign contributions using their treasury funds was unconstitutional.
The ruling additionally stated that the spending was a form of political speech that is protected by the First Amendment, according to the official blog of the Supreme Court of the United States.
“These corporations, along with the people they support, other millionaires who they’re putting into office, are stealing your government,” Johnson was quoted as saying by CNS News. “They’re stealing the government and the U.S. Supreme Court was a big enabler with the Citizens United case.”
“I am embarrassed by the sliding intelligence of my countrymen when I read this type of stupidity.”
You mean like the following example:
“Everybody in Cleveland, low minorities, got Obama phone. Keep Obama in president, you know. He gave us a phone, he gonna do more. You sign up! If you on food stamps, you on social security, you got low income, you disability…”
Not only would I not mind it, I have been advocating it since the late 1970's.
Do not be afraid, unless you sleep in a place that contains both a woman and a cast-iron frying pan.
The way most women vote, it's hard to disagree with you.
Hey! Just look at Alcee Hastings (D), impeached for corruption and removed from the federal bench, and who was elected in 1992 and has been reelected every two since then. Unfortunately, it appears that stupidity is related to skin color in both cases.
Can’t fix stupid.
Totaliarian by any other name is still totalitarian.
True. He would love several more terms, in the name of national interest of course.
True. He would love several more terms, in the name of national interest of course.
People who are so fence post stupid that they think an island like Guam might tip over should never be allowed to speak and never be quoted if they do. How ‘bout dat?
I could agree to limitations on free speech if it applied to lying politicians, lying media and unions.
Not one shred of doubt
Of course.
The first pie-hole to be silenced would be his!
“The Congressman is talking like a dunce.”
If you can bear to listen to him for 30 seconds, you’ll realize he is a dunce.
What mindless masses vote for these low-lifes?
This is not to agree with the Congresscritter, but isn't the left wing media controlled and owned by, D'UH, corporations, and filling their coffers with dollars that come from advertising by other corporations, which apparently is successful selling products to consumers, some of whom even vote?!
“This would be the Congressman that was afraid that Guam would ‘tip over’ if we increased our Military presence there? “
The very same, and notably, he’s also one of Holder’s People. Clearly an Affirmative Action type, so all he needs to do is roll up his sleeve and put his arm next to that of his constituents for comparison and he’s elected (again and again).
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