Motion to Amend?
Yea it seems that this is the newest thing going around Facebook.
We, the People of the United States of America, reject the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United, and move to amend our Constitution to:
Firmly establish that money is not speech, and that human beings, not corporations, are persons entitled to constitutional rights.
Guarantee the right to vote and to participate, and to have our vote and participation count.
Protect local communities, their economies, and democracies against illegitimate “preemption” actions by global, national, and state governments.
Ok, so giving money to a cause you support is not freedom of speech by using money to buy fake awards and medals is. There is the question of human beings having right protected under the Constitution then who do they think makes up the different corporations? Participation count? Meaning what that your vote has a effect in a solid red or blue State like California or Texas? The last statement is advocating isolationism flat out. But this is something that you cannot put back into the bottle. But the comments about it are just odd.
Reply 1The rich will strive to establish their dominion and enslave the rest. They always did, they always will. They will have the same effect here as elsewhere if we do not, by the power of government, keep them in their proper spheres. –Gouverneur Morris (in a letter to James Madison)
Reply 2: The monied corporations, banks and large businesses should not be allotted the same rights as individual citizens. This country was founded to protect the citizens from the abuses of a ruling aristocracy. Now we are busy giving that protection away in favor of a new aristocracy.
Reply 3: The government of the people, by the people and for the people, means that we are all equal. The decision in Citizens United made some people (lobbyists, big money) more equal than the less affluent citizenry. Citizens United is a shameful power grab by the new aristocracy.
Category: Economy
I get this crap all the time from the Left about the idea expressed in:
“Firmly establish that money is not speech, and that human beings, not corporations, are persons entitled to constitutional rights.”
They are left sputtering when asked the simple question. Should the New York Times, CNN, The Washington Post or even The Daily Show enjoy Freedom of Speech.
Freedom of speech means you can spew whatever idiotic views you want. You could use said freedom to NOT use said corporate entities. Although many companies give to both R and D, as a way to hedge their bets, keep in mind that “wall street” and most “corporations” happen to give more money to DEMOCRATS. Why? Loop holes.
(Punch line of an old joke) “What you mean WE, white man?”
Whoever these socialist idiots are, they DO NOT, and NEVER WILL speak for ME.
Another example of the Left’s obfuscating BS’ing half-truths.