This UPI story explains the lawsuit Cao v Federal Election Commission, which the U.S. Supreme Court may or may not decide to hear. The case, filed jointly by former Congressman Anh “Joseph” Cao and the Republican National Committee, challenges the part of the McCain-Feingold law that limits how much money parties can spend on their own speech, if that speech is coordinated with one of the party’s candidates and appears to help that candidate. Thanks to HowAppealing for the link.
When we speak of money, speech is no longer free, it is “paid for”. The corruption of the English language to fit the needs of politicians, including Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States (for that is what they basically are), because more evident with each passing day. Thanks to five Supreme Court Justices – Roberts, Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas and Alito – the corporate takeover of the United States has been accomoplished. We are now officially a “corporatocracy”, in which corporate wealth combined with legslative corruption have succeeded in destroying the dream of the founding fathers. Corporation, their lobbyists and their money now control the Congress of the United States, with actions that if any individual citizen took would constitute the crime of bribery.
We criticize corruption throughout the world, but blind ourselves to its volume in our own government. Corruption in our Courts is mental rather than financial. An ideologue judge or justice is a mentally corrupt justice.
The rights of the American voter is again being challenged, and if the trend contnues, the average American will again be a loser to the special interests and moneyed few, who buy their “free” speech, like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, with tens oif millions of dollars from their corporate membership (many of which are foreign companies).
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