One dollar, one vote

Olbermann on the Supreme Court "corporations are people" decision. This should be required viewing, as folk need to understand the severity.
thisweekwithbarackobama.blogspot.com/2010/01/keith-olbermanns-special-comment-of.html

Do folk really get the ramifications of this? This is not to give power to the mom-and-pop shop down the street, it's for multi-national corporations. For example, an oil company interested in drilling in Venezuela can now legally give BILLIONS of dollars to a candidate on the sole basis that they will launch a war against the people of Venezuela, so they can reap more billions in profits - this will be good for business, good for profits and is now perfectly legal. That company need not be an American company - it can be Russian, Chinese, Saudi, anything. Whomever has the most money is now free to try to purchase US elections. Thanks, Republicans.

Grayson:
grayson.house.gov/2010/01/grayson-save-our-democracy.shtml

If we do finally understand the horrible ramifications of this, from that can we now extrapolate just how damaging to democracy it is when judges are picked based on their extremely biased political views, rather than their dedication to the Constitution and laws which they are supposed to serve?

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White House response
www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/statement-president-todays-supreme-court-decision-0

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"All contributions by corporations to any political committee or for any
political purpose should be forbidden by law" ---Teddy Roosevelt

Based on their current stated values, conservatives now consider Teddy Roosevelt to be anti-American, since they're applauding the ability of foreign and multi-national corporations to spend unlimited money to promote candidates of their choice.

www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat/519819

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"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism, since it is the merger of state and corporate power" -Benito Mussolini

How to explain the 5 Republican political appointees to the Supreme Court?
"Garbage in, garbage out...If you have selfish ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish ignorant leaders." -George Carlin

I'm sure our founding fathers would have been happy to know that in 2010, corporations linked to foreign governments would be legally entitled to campaign for and against our nation's candidates for public office.

trueslant.com/level/2010/01/22/supreme-court-ruling-means-get-used-to-campaign-ads-from-mother-russia

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“The rule announced today — that Congress must treat corporations exactly like human speakers in the political realm — represents a radical change in the law,” he said from the bench. “The court’s decision is at war with the views of generations of Americans.”

www.nytimes.com/2010/01/26/us/26bar.html?hpw

Just curious, this is very likely the single greatest act of "judicial activism" ever perpetrated on the United States. Foreign companies (many of which are synonymous with their foreign governments) can now legally pour billions of dollars into US elections to insure that our representatives respect their wishes, rather than the citizens of the US.

The conservatives used to cry about "judicial activism" whenever there was a ruling that they disagreed with. Now that we're facing this devastating blow to the fundamentals of democracy, where's the outrage?