The high absurdity of Citizens United continues to sink in … think about this: If ever there were a place where free speech is suppressed, it is the workplace. I am self-employed. Were I not, I would have to measure every word every said in regards to how it might affect my employment. I would not blog, or would use a fake name, and I would not write letters to newspapers. For-profit corporations are groups of controlled people and naturally take on the character of the people who run them. Some are free and open, but as they get bigger, oppression naturally sets in. Once they go public, and CEO’s have to make those quarterly phone interviews, all freedom is lost, and workers become part of a sweat machine delivering quarterly results.
ExxonMobil is such a company – a vast array of engineers and scientists and accountants and MBA’s and managers managers managers – and none of them are free to speak out against ExxonMobil.
But ExxonMobil is a person with free speech rights.
Utter nonsense. Utter, utter nonsense.
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Before Citizens United I had really no way to run an effective commercial on television. As an individual, lower middle class, I have very little money to spend on politics. After this rulues, now like minded people can gather together, put their money together and run a commercial directly for or against a candidate. It has opened up my ability to be part of the electoral process. I am thrilled at the freedom this opened up for the average person! This took the elections from the rich, and now gives me more power than ever before.
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Think! It’s like being thrilled with one’s squirt gun as the tsumami approaches. If you think your “truth” will counter the 24/7 propaganda on TV, again I urge further consideration.
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…where free speech is suppressed…
Your political leftism is a pretty good shackle: proscribed discussion on the costs of illegal immigration, black on white crime, Hispanic underachievement, the costs of liberal governance on crime rates, family breakdown, etc. No cage like a self imposed one.
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