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11. Speaking of Citizens United...

"We the People" are on the move!

The Senate will soon vote on an amendment to overturn Citizens United. History is calling!

By Jim Hightower - 7/5/2014

So many absurdities abound in our lives that there's a whole body of philosophical thought called "absurdism," as well as an entire catalogue of plays called the "theater of the absurd." And then there's Antonin Scalia.

This sour, scowling, and snarky Supreme Court Justice personifies the dictionary definition of absurd: "Utterly or obviously senseless, illogical, or untrue; contrary to all reason or common sense; laughably foolish or false."

A right-wing dogmatist and extreme judicial activist who's full of himself, Scalia has been the court's chief monkey-wrencher for corporate interests, constantly messing with the Constitution to enthrone plutocratic money over our people's democratic politics. By black-robed fiat, he and his four fellow corporatists on the bench have managed to twist language and pervert nature itself by declaring that corporations are "people" and money is "speech." Thus, in their now infamous Citizens United edict of 2010, the five decreed that these huge, lifeless, paper constructs--without brains, hearts, souls, or tongues--must be free to "speak" in our elections by spending unlimited (and undisclosed) amounts of their shareholders' money to determine who wins public office...



A lot more at the link:

http://www.hightowerlowdown.org/node/3696

Money doesn't talk. It swears.

~ Bob Dylan

I hope Democrats get this done. They are already trying to get around Scalia's last shenanigans on women's rights with Hobby Lobby.

Nothing good can be expected from Scalia on women. He said, or at least as quoted on DU, that women had no rights under the Constitution.

He also said about the buffer zone case, that women had been getting 'special rights' with buffer zones. Sounds very familiar. But he's only doing his job: