Well-heeled US Corporations will be eager to hire Kool & the Gang tribute bands for their upcoming corporate functions. The good times have finally arrived. The US Supreme Court has just unleashed hell onto a jaded populace, and into an already jaundiced, completely corrupted political process.
Corporations will be celebrating the Supreme Court's decision to grant a major victory for big oil, over-leveraged Wall Street banks, health insurance companies, the pharmaceutical industry, Agribusiness, bankrupt automobile manufacturers, defense contractors, and the other powerful interests that marshal their power every day, in our besieged capital, Washington, DC.
Imagine, corporations now have the right to freedom of speech, and if our elected officials don't kow-tow to their needs, they'll spend the necessary amounts to achieve an ass-streamlining for said official(s), in the way of "change you can buy, and believe in."
Citizens, revel in the agony that without congressional term limits, the voices of everyday working Americans who can't afford to purchase congressional influence, will be effectively silenced, forever.
Worse, your money will soon run out with the next election cycle, scheduled for 2010. As corporations buy in, we'll see $4 a gallon gas, 25% + credit card rates, more unhealthy, chemically enhanced food "products," drugs you don't need which cure emotional or imaginary, but not real diseases, outrageous bank fees hidden in fine print, toxic mortgage products, expensive, mystifying, uneconomical health insurance, and gas guzzling cars, loved by our oil producing masters, which just scream, "energy efficient!" If you love ammonia in your hamburgers, with lite beer and prilosec to wash it all down, you're all set for the new corporate millennium, on steroids.
The Supreme Court says that corporations are just like you and me, and have rights, just like individual citizens do under the Constitution. However, by my read, "the primary distinguishing feature of a corporation is the so-called limited liability of the officers, directors, and shareholders (the "principals") of the company." And, "if a corporation breaches an obligation or causes injury to a third party, only the corporation and not the principals are legally responsible." {Business Law, 101.} So how does an entity formed for profit and legal protection of its principals under state law become entitled to federal freedom of speech protection heretofore reserved under the Constitution for ordinary citizens?
It's amazing that you can be so f*cking ignorant, and still become a Supreme Court Justice. These razor sharp minds are appointed and anointed by...politicians, freed from the inconvenient burden of term limits, running for re-election constantly on a 24 hour cable news cycle, fed by boring, mono-tonal, overpaid celebrity news readers like CNN's "Wolfman" Blitzer.
That's a Catch-22, for us ordinary citizens. (def.:"a paradox in rules, regulations, procedures, or situations in which one has knowledge of being or becoming a victim but has no control over it occurring")
When Citizen Kane was on his deathbed, his last utterance was the cryptic "rosebud." Like Kane, recently deceased Senator Kennedy's last should have been "term limits," for he was its bloated poster boy. There's too many in congress like him, and now, the money will flow freely into the deepest, darkest corners, as the rats and cockroaches living and working there scurry from exposure to the light.
