News Alert: Supreme Court Rejects Campaign Spending Limits

[Joe Allonby]

But I still have this interweb thingy! Oh shit, corporations can
control that too since I communicate through google and Facebook.
Newscorp owns Myspace. If they can control content in The Corporate
Republic of China, they can control it here. Your're right. We're
screwed. That W.A.S.T.E. system sounds better all the time.

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Thomas Beshear <tbeshear at insightbb.com> wrote:
> Yeah, we're screwed. Bye bye democracy.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "rich" <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
> To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 1:36 PM
> Subject: Fwd: News Alert: Supreme Court Rejects Campaign Spending Limits
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>> say goodbye to your voice, friend
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>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: NYTimes.com News Alert <nytdirect at nytimes.com>
>> Date: Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:12 AM
>> Subject: News Alert: Supreme Court Rejects Campaign Spending Limits
>> To: richard.romeo at gmail.com
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>>
>> Breaking News Alert
>> The New York Times
>> Thu, January 21, 2010 -- 10:11 AM ET
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>> Supreme Court Rejects Campaign Spending Limits
>>
>> The Supreme Court has ruled that corporations may spend
>> freely to support or oppose candidates for president and
>> Congress, easing decades-old limits on their participation in
>> federal campaigns.
>>
>> The court on Thursday overturned a 20-year-old ruling that
>> said corporations can be prohibited from using money from
>> their general treasuries to pay for campaign ads. The
>> decision almost certainly will also allow labor unions to
>> participate more freely in campaigns and threatens similar
>> limits imposed by 24 states.
>>
>> The justices also struck down part of the landmark
>> McCain-Feingold campaign finance bill that barred union- and
>> corporate-paid issue ads in the closing days of election
>> campaigns.
>>
>> Read More:
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>> http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/01/21/us/AP-US-Supreme-Court-Campaign-Finance.html?emc=na
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