Supreme Court to US Citizens: "Go To Hell!"

By Tea In The Harbor

In a move this writer thinks should be considered treason, the Supreme Court today decided that Corporations are not strangling the political process enough. For the first time in history the corporations who brought our economy to it's knees with their lust for the dollar just over a year ago will now be allowed to pick and choose who we are allowed to vote for almost directly.

The sanction of open purchase of political office is mindful of the blatant corruption of the King's England that necessitated the Revolution. In that case it was taxation by a single corporation, the British East India Company, that resulted in the downfall of the most powerful Empire on earth. Today's ruling allows any company with the money to step in and choose our candidates by supplying them with unlimited cash to campaign with.

The American People have just been effectively cut out of our own political process. We haven't the resources to compete with these conglomerates on any meaningful level, and many of them are owned outside of the Nation to avoid even paying taxes to the government they can now buy.

Welcome to the New Dark Ages. We are now serfs, meaningless to our leaders and nothing more than chattel upon which they can profit. Our votes no longer have the slightest meaning because anyone who is on our side will be weeded out in the primary process and will never again stand before the people for election. We now stand entirely stripped of our political rights and every penny paid in taxes by individual citizens is Taxation without Representation.

We will be told that we the People still make the ultimate decision but that is a bald faced lie my friends, we are given the choice to burn the left hand or the right, but not to avoid the flames. Each of us should prepare to enter the streets in protest. If we do not, our children and theirs after will be slaves in every meaningful definition of the term.

This is not our founder's America, our founders were very clear that corporations should be afforded only "artificial personhood," and that only for a limited amount of time and only renewed with evidence that the corporation is serving some tangible public good. Jefferson and Madison proposed that the concept be written into an eleventh amendment to our Bill of Rights, but the Continental Congress thought it so improbable that any such notion could be taken from a free people that the amendment was discarded. There were no objections to the premise, just a confidence in the wisdom of leaders yet to be born that America would never tolerate the injustice that had caused the revolution itself!

The Nine Dog Society will be calling for a National day of protest on May 10th, the anniversary of the day a law clerk slipped his own opinion into that of the Court and sanctioned the corporate coup that now appears complete. We are small my friends, far too small to have much effect, but we will grow! I call on each of you to help bring us members, to act on your beliefs and to begin what will be the largest struggle for human freedom and liberty since that revolution so long past.

Use the power that is at your fingertips to convince, beg, and cajole our fellow citizens to open their eyes! If you feel any less than complete outrage at this usurpation of our political rights study the issue, for there is no other moral reaction to an informed mind! Use the time between now and the 10th of May to organize and increase our numbers, we have allies in the vast majority of the American People and we must find a way to energize them!
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