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Edited by GribbyMcGrub: 1/22/2016 3:23:58 PM
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Do You Support Citizens United?

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http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Citizens_United [quote]In January, 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court, in a divided 5-4 vote, held that section 441b of the 2002 McCain-Feingold federal campaign finance law ([url=http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bipartisan_Campaign_Reform_Act]Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act[/url]) was unconstitutional. The law prohibited corporations and unions from using their general treasury funds to make independent expenditures for "electioneering communication," or for speech expressly advocating the election or defeat of a candidate. The ruling effectively protected corporate speech the same as individual speech. The majority’s ruling about corporate electioneering marked a dramatic break from the past. In doing so, the Court rejected a century of previous court decisions that ruled corporate donations can, and should be regulated. In its ruling, the court never explained why corporate identity demands the same treatment as individual identity.[5][/quote] TL;DR - Corporations, businesses, and organizations are people too, and they should be allowed to buy their way into politics, but we can't explain why. We just think that this is prohibiting free speech, so shut the -blam!- up, and accept it. This is corruption in its purest form. If our rights aren't recognized under private supervision, then why is it the opposite the other way around? Why do these businesses get to buy their way into deciding our laws, just because they have money? How is this allowed to be what represents America? By the way, this is a conservative policy, so to all of you conservatives, I want to know what you think of this. You're all for limiting the government's hold on corporations, but when it's the other way around? I want to see where your allegiance lies.

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  • Let's take a moment to examine the word "corporations". It is not, as many believe, solely a matter of a large and powerful business. Any person or persons can "incorporate" themselves and focus on a goal. That goal can be business, can be a social issue, can be a community focused on a group of or a single issue. Code Pink is a incorporated. So is the NRA. Organized labor are incorporated. So are the NAACP, churches, dairy farmers, news organizations, political parties, and any group that does any public/private advocacy. A corporation is simply a group of people combining their efforts, resources, voices and yes, their money in order to support or encourage a specific result. The First Amendment of the US Constitution protects the right of people to assemble and the right of people to freely associate as individuals or in groups is widely recognized in most modern societies. A corporation is both "a thing", but it is also a group of people. It is not some faceless fanged, drooling, inhuman monster dedicated to ruining society. Since the individual rights of people to speak their minds on social and political matters can not be restricted, the right and ability of people to join together and speak as one voice is also protected.

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