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In reply to the discussion: Man Challenges Citizens United – From The Carpool Lane [View all]Demeter
(85,373 posts)46. Under FISA, they can do that anyway
Wake up and smell the coffee...we have no civil rights.
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Yes, as Thom has said, in the head note, not written by an SC justice
freedom fighter jh
Jan 2013
#14
A surprising number of DUers want corporations to be stripped of all constitutional protections.
Nye Bevan
Jan 2013
#8
Say Congress passed a law that nobody is allowed to spend money to criticize any member of Congress.
Nye Bevan
Jan 2013
#25
Bill Gates and George Soros can spend as much money as they like on advertising.
Nye Bevan
Jan 2013
#28
Here's a thread advocating that corporations should be stripped of all constitutional protections.
Nye Bevan
Jan 2013
#58
Had the courts followed that logic, would we have read the Pentagon papers, in the 1970s?
eallen
Jan 2013
#49
ever since I read that back in the day I've wanted to start a band called Marin County Hot Tubbers
dionysus
Jan 2013
#13
waste of oxygen, meet frivolous argument. frivolous argument, waste of oxygen.
struggle4progress
Jan 2013
#9
America needs to treat Corporations the Exact Same Way they were tread by the Founding Fathers
stultusporcos
Jan 2013
#21