NP - Philadelphia Daily News Editortial

[Matthew Cissell]

Paul,

Take the Carl Schmitt factor out of this court and we wouldn't be having this discussion. To say that campiagn limits is equal to censorship is daft. Using the EPC (Equal prot. clause) was a good move by the CitUN but it just gave a chance to the controlling element to push its own ideological rulings. 
ciao
mc


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 From: Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net>
To: pynchon-l at waste.org 
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2012 6:28 PM
Subject: Re: NP - Philadelphia Daily News Editortial
 

On 6/26/2012 11:57 AM, Matthew Cissell wrote:

I'm behind that. Right on, Dave.
Me too, but the Citizen's United ruling didn't really depend on
    corporation personhood. It was a First Amendment based decision,
    regardless of how misguided.  Corporationhood is a fourteenth
    amendment equal protection under the law thing.


P


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>To: P-list <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
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>http://www.philly.com/philly/opinion/20120626_Supreme_Court_makes_two_good_decisions__and_one_bad_one_.html
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>The court declined to reconsider its decision in Citizens
            United v.
>Federal Election Commission, which granted corporations
            personhood,
>with First Amendment rights. We're stealing from a site
            called "Create
>Real Democracy" to sum up our disdain for this decision.
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>"We'll believe a corporation is a person when:
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>Arizona deports one.
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>Texas executes one.
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>Massachusetts marries two of them.
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>The U.S. government issues one a Social Security number.
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>The CIA extradites one to Guantanamo.
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>One sacrifices its life in military service."
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