News Alert: Supreme Court Rejects Campaign Spending Limits

[Thomas Beshear]

I think it's almost impossible to overestimate how bad this decision is. It 
ranks right up there with Dred Scott and Plessy v. Ferguson. The only hope 
may be for a change in the court to a more liberal makeup, which then 
overturns this ruling. But that's a thin hope; it would have to have before 
many election cycles pass.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Kohut" <markekohut at yahoo.com>
To: "David Morris" <fqmorris at gmail.com>
Cc: "Thomas Beshear" <tbeshear at insightbb.com>; "Joe Allonby" 
<joeallonby at gmail.com>; "rich" <richard.romeo at gmail.com>; 
<pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 10:01 PM
Subject: Re: News Alert: Supreme Court Rejects Campaign Spending Limits


> This decision has so got to me.....like a blow......yes, maybe shoot me 
> now...
>
> Talk about P's prescience and lifelong themes.....this turns the political 
> future into a new 1984, closer to Orwell's dark, narrower book---narrower 
> than Vineland, I mean. Thought control now by companies fully openly, 
> totally, insidiously......
>
> Power, now fully bought and sold.....power, that force in his fiction 
> which destroys ...humanity....atttempts to even be human a bit.....
>
> --- On Thu, 1/21/10, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: News Alert: Supreme Court Rejects Campaign Spending Limits
>> To: "Mark Kohut" <markekohut at yahoo.com>
>> Cc: "Thomas Beshear" <tbeshear at insightbb.com>, "Joe Allonby" 
>> <joeallonby at gmail.com>, "rich" <richard.romeo at gmail.com>, 
>> pynchon-l at waste.org
>> Date: Thursday, January 21, 2010, 3:30 PM
>> a Constitutional amendment would
>> trump the Supreme Court ruling.
>>
>> 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.................
>>
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