Dixie - In Memoriam
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Grow up, genius. This is America, that means citizens can and do contest laws, rulings, etc. Maybe you were asleep in civics class, maybe you don't know what happens to countries that just follow rulings of their gov't without question. TFB for you if your beliefs are challenged.....if you can't take it, then don't discuss things with others....just shove your head further up Rush Limbaugh's fat ass, and you'll hear exactly what you want.
I am grown up... 50 years old as a matter of fact. I wasn't asleep in Civics class, and I am aware of the procedures to change the Constitution. Good luck with that! I know what happens in countries who don't protect or guarantee free speech, that's why I am glad the SCOTUS got it right. Oh, and I heard all this from the Supreme Court, the case is posted at their website, I linked it... didn't come from Rush, sorry you were confused about that.
Well toodles, in the real world corporations make profit, employ people, finance projects and small businesses and research, create brand names & products, copyrights, pay taxes, control small levels of infrastructure in some instances, etc., etc. Corporate logos ensure that any product or research financed or sponsored or created by them garners profit solely for them. And when the original founders, board members and worker die, the corporate name lives on....OTHER people buy that corporate brand in some cases. The "corporation" lives on IN LEGAL DOCUMENTS IN NAME, not that of the current board members.
Nope... Corporations are inanimate, they don't "DO" anything! EVER! NEVER EVER EVER!! It is ALWAYS, without fault, 100% of the time, PEOPLE who belong to a corporation, who do things. Corporations themselves, have NO power or ability to "DO" a damn thing on their own. Sorry you were disillusioned.
You should have read ALL the material I sourced as well as the SCOTUS ruling you kept throwing in, toodles....they pretty much contradict your rant here.
I did indeed read the case, but I refuse to read left-wing propaganda, it rots your brain... you are a good example of that. The SCOTUS most certainly didn't contradict MY rant, they contradicted YOUR rant! That's why you won't shut up about it! You are really quite confused here, chicklet!
Wrong as usual....for nearly a decade I processed contracts by investment bankers were the client would be identified by the corporate name, and the contract would instruct the reader as to what the corporate name did, what it wanted, and what the bankers would do for it. Whomever was the current legal authorization for the corporation signed the contract could change (and sometimes did), but the CORPORATION was the client.
I don't give a flying fuck what you did, you never saw a corporation do anything of its own volition. As you admit yourself... "Whomever" was legal authorization... that "Whomever" was a person, was it not? I am willing to bet, it WAS a person! In which case, you just contradicted your own argument and PWNED yourself for me... thanks so much for doing that, I love it when that happens!
Ahhh, so if you don't see the words, "corporations are people too" then that wasn't one of the results of the ruling? Jeez, not much of a business man, are ya bunky? Because any good lawyer will tell you that there are several ways to make a statement besides the painfully obvious one. That's why I specified pages 4 & 5 and the cases they sight.
No... If I don't see "corporations are people" I don't believe that was what the court said, and I don't believe you've made the case that this is what they said. Again, I couldn't give two fucks what a lawyer might say... lawyers are the most dishonest scum on earth, so what fucking difference does that make, and what does it have to do with what the SCOTUS said?
Really? And were in McCain-Feingold said that YOU couldn't donate to a campaign, because it doubled hard money donations, right? What it banned was corporations and unions using their funds to run "ADDITIONAL" campaign broadcasts within 30-60 days of election to what the party they were donating to was doing. So what you're pissed about is the "edge" on a crucial aspect was taken away. TFB....if a level playing field isn't to your liking, move to a country were your money is more influential.
McCain-Feingold was the justification for the suit heard by the SCOTUS here, it has EVERYTHING to do with this! Corporations are no different than a 527 group, a union, or a dot org, so why would one not have the same access as the others? What about THAT is "level" on the playing field? No, the SCOTUS ruling NOW gives us a level playing field, all entities are treaty the same, whether they are corporations, organizations, activist groups, unions, or whatever. They ALL have the exact same rights to do the exact same things, no one is excluded, no one is given special consideration, it is all completely fair and impartial with regard to who has access to political speech in America... as it should be!
Since the total of my posts and responses to date do not add up to 296, your claim that I participated to such a degree on this thread is a lie.