absent the kind of courage we seldom see in congress, this will be the completion of corporate domination of our democratic process. I recently wrote about “being the change” with the idea that if we withhold our support for corporate media companies, oil companies fat food companies and big box companies, we would weaken their power over us. While that is true, it applies less to the MICC, since war parasites like Halliburton and other companies that pick our pockets through military spending provide little in consumer goods or services (GE is one exception, being a MICC, corporate media and consumer goods operation).
Unless we manage to turn this decision around, we might as well just give all our money to the MICC contractors directly so that they do not have to start wars to get it
! Call it the “Cash For Contractors Peace Project”.
Empty your wallets and there will be no trouble!!
In solidarity, Lane
Emphasis added by KEM
Published on Thursday, January 21, 2010 by CommonDreams. org
Corporate Personhood Should Be Banned, Once and For All
Outrageous SCOTUS Decision Should Reignite Most Necessary of Debates
by Ralph Nader
Today’s decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in Citizens United v.
Federal Election Commission shreds the fabric of our already weakened
democracy by allowing corporations to more completely dominate our
corrupted electoral process. It is outrageous that corporations
already attempt to influence or bribe our political candidates through
their political action committees (PACs), which solicit employees and
shareholders for donations. With this decision, corporations can now
also draw on their corporate treasuries and pour vast amounts of
corporate money, through independent expenditures, into the electoral
swamp already flooded with corporate campaign PAC contribution dollars.
This corporatist, anti-voter decision is so extreme that it should
galvanize a grassroots effort to enact a Constitutional Amendment to
once and for all end corporate personhood and curtail the corrosive
impact of big money on politics. It is indeed time for a
Constitutional amendment to prevent corporate campaign contributions
from commercializing our elections and drowning out the civic and
political voices and values of citizens and voters. It is way overdue
to overthrow “King Corporation” and restore the sovereignty of “We the
People”!
Ralph Nader is a consumer advocate, lawyer, and author. His most
recent book – and first novel – is, Only The Super Wealthy Can Save
Us. His most recent work of non-fiction is The Seventeen Traditions.
Kenneth Mayers
Veterans for Peace – Santa Fe
Wage Peace!
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