There is a Place in the 9th Circle of Hell for Scalia , the U.S. Chambers of Commerce and the GOP

[McCamy Taylor]

The Ninth Circle of the Inferno is for traitors. According to Dante, those who betray their communities and their countries are encased in ice, trapped forever in their moment of treachery.



There is a place waiting in the lowest circle of Hell for those who are selling out their country to the highest foreign bidders.

Supreme Court (In)justice Scalia has a place here, along with Kennedy, Alito, Roberts and Thomas---the Gang of Five. They cast the deciding votes in Citizens United vs. the FEC in which they ruled that any corporation has the right to spend unlimited amounts of money in federal elections campaigning for and against candidates. Justice Stevens foresaw the dangers of their ruling when he wrote

If taken seriously, our colleagues’ assumption that the identity of a speaker has no relevance to the Government’s ability to regulate political speech would lead to some remarkable conclusions. Such an assumption would have accorded the propaganda broadcasts to our troops by “Tokyo Rose” during World War II the same protection as speech by Allied commanders. More pertinently, it would appear to afford the same protection to multinational corporations controlled by foreigners as to individual Americans

http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/08-205.ZX.html

Scalia and the others will try to argue that they had no idea that their ruling would unleash a flood of foreign money in the next federal election. But Stevens spelled it all out in his dissent. The Gang of Five knowingly put our country at risk. They made it possible for foreigners to buy the midterm elections. They are traitors to their country.

There is a place in the Ninth Circle of Hell for the U.S. Chambers of Commerce, which has gathered the foreign money. Seems like every nation on earth has something that it wants from the United States. India wants us to ship all our jobs overseas. So, they give generously to Republican candidates---via the U.S. C of C. Never mind that domestic businesses such as retail, travel and housing will go to the dogs without a solvent American middle class. Foreign drug companies based in the UK, Switzerland, Germany and France want to keep Medicare Part D costs sky high in order to subsidize reduced drug prices in their own countries. The want to keep us sick, too. The last thing they want is for the U.S. to enact sound public health policies that would make us as healthy as folks in Europe. Middle Eastern oil producers like Saudi Arabia want to halt clean energy research and efforts to clean up our environment. The benefit for them? We will be dependent upon their overpriced oil until they have squeezed every last drop of it from the earth. They could care less that we will end up broke, our domestic industries at a standstill when their energy runs out, our children sick and dying from asthma and pneumonia. The Chambers launder money from China, which is quietly buying up the properties which Banks are illegally foreclosing. Foreign bankers are desperate to roll back banking regulations which interfere with their ability to rip off American investors. The so called U.S. Chambers of Commerce even accept funds from those in Asia who want to build a TransAfghanistan pipeline---no matter how many U.S. servicemen and women have to die.

http://www.truth-out.org/foreign-funded-us-chamber-of-commerce-running-partisan-attack-ads63966

http://www.thinkprogress.org/2010/10/13/chamber-foreign-funded-media/

The Republicans who accept this tainted foreign money are no better than Benedict Arnold. Hell, Arnold thought of himself as a British patriot. The GOPers who eagerly sell their sells to China and Saudi Arabia are more like Judas. They have received all the blessings that come from living in the richest country on earth---and now they are prepared to sell us to the Romans---and India and Switzerland---for twenty pieces of silver.

What do you call a group of foreign businessmen who want to kill our troops, steal our homes, take away our health, drain our retirement accounts and put us out on the street to die so that people in other countries can make money?

Greedy, unscrupulous businessmen who know a good deal when Karl Rove offers it to them.

What would you call a group of Americans who want to kill our troops, steal our homes, take away our health, drain our retirement accounts and put us out on the street to die so that people in other countries can make money from our misery?

I call them traitors. Being encased in ice for all eternity is too good for them.