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Some Reflections on Citizens United--SCOTUS CASE
| Saffron Gay Wizard | 03/14/12 |
| Saffron Gay Wizard | 07/28/12 |
| aquamarine aphrodisiac public bath brethren | 07/28/12 |
| appetizing whorehouse | 07/28/12 |
| Saffron Gay Wizard | 07/28/12 |
| appetizing whorehouse | 07/28/12 |
| Clear multi-billionaire codepig | 07/28/12 |
| 180 national dysfunction | 07/28/12 |
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Date: March 14th, 2012 12:04 PM Author: Saffron Gay Wizard It's hard to imagine a better illustration of Marx's theory of the ruling class than Citizens United, the 2010 case brought before the US Supreme Court in which the majority decided that political action committees (or PACs) cannot be subject to campaign finance laws. PACs do not formally represent candidates and instead, express their own political views. So the money they spend is more like free speech. Therefore, political money is speech protected by the US Constitution's First Amendment.
n theory, this is an egalitarian ruling. Any citizen can spend any amount of money to promote or attack any issue they want. But we don't live in an egalitarian society. As Gore Vidal has said, America is a very good place to live if you have money and property. Not so much if you don't.
Now we have 364 so-called super PACs dominating the national political dialogue as candidates compete for the Republican Party's presidential nomination. These organisations can raise and spend unlimited amounts of money as long as they don't explicitly endorse or challenge a specific candidate. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, they have raised more than $130m in 2012 and spent almost $75m on attack advertisements carried over broadcast, cable and radio. Of that total amount, 25 per cent comes from just five people. |
Date: July 28th, 2012 12:37 PM Author: Saffron Gay Wizard (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1897616&forum_id=2#21197359) |
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Date: July 28th, 2012 12:46 PM Author: aquamarine aphrodisiac public bath brethren “when men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe even more than they believe in the very foundations of their own conduct that the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas—that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market, ..."
suck it down, u commie faggot |
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Date: July 28th, 2012 12:46 PM Author: appetizing whorehouse Shitlib wants to ban books why (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1897616&forum_id=2#21197407) |
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Date: July 28th, 2012 12:48 PM Author: Saffron Gay Wizard nothing to do with my reflection (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1897616&forum_id=2#21197415) |
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Date: July 28th, 2012 12:53 PM Author: appetizing whorehouse That was Obama's SCOTUS argument. Govt should be able to ban political speech. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1897616&forum_id=2#21197438) |
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Date: July 28th, 2012 12:54 PM Author: Clear multi-billionaire codepig Protip: Citizens United was a movie about Hillary Clinton. Shitlibs literaly wanted to ban a movie. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1897616&forum_id=2#21197446) |
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Date: July 28th, 2012 1:03 PM Author: 180 national dysfunction we should have banned fahrenheit 9/11, right libs? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1897616&forum_id=2#21197509) |