News Alert: Supreme Court Rejects Campaign Spending Limits

[Jude Bloom]

in fairness, isn't dehumanization an old process?  hard to imagine
depersonalizing people more so than in the gulag or the auschwitz.  martin
ami's semi-recent "koba the dread: laughter and the twenty million," a cool,
odd little book on "the russian experiment" and stalin, details pretty well
how dehumanized people can become under the fist of the state.  as in, not
human any more: animal.

also i find william gibson interesting on the subject of corporations
becoming entities with "rights" approaching those of real humans.... to the
point where nation-states become obsolete as the world switches to rule by
corporation, built on (as i read it in gibson) the japanese zaibatsu
system.....

~ j




On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Congress has to pass legislation that takes away 'legal personhood' from
> corporations, ...but fat chance......since real persons have no right even
> to their health.................
>
> Do you think it is entirely coincidental that TRP seems to think our
> humanness started disappearing as corporations became legally "human"???
>
> Almost inversely proportional....as if Maxwell's Demon sorted out the
> limited humanness molecules.........
>
> --- On Thu, 1/21/10, Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > From: Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: News Alert: Supreme Court Rejects Campaign Spending Limits
> > To: "Thomas Beshear" <tbeshear at insightbb.com>
> > Cc: "rich" <richard.romeo at gmail.com>, pynchon-l at waste.org
> > Date: Thursday, January 21, 2010, 2:25 PM
> > 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
> > >
> > >
> > >> say goodbye to your voice, friend
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> ---------- 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
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Breaking News Alert
> > >> The New York Times
> > >> Thu, January 21, 2010 -- 10:11 AM ET
> > >> -----
> > >>
> > >> 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:
> > >>
> > >>
> http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/01/21/us/AP-US-Supreme-Court-Campaign-Finance.html?emc=na
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