i was approached on the ferry going home recently by a petitioner with a document to sign. it was protesting the move by the government to allow pipelines across canada from the tar sands in alberta to the west coast, then in tankers down the coast to american refineries. i said i agreed that was not in our interests and would sign it but that it was futile, a pathetic effort really compared to the forces arrayed against it in favor of the pipelines and tankers. what i wanted to sign, might even be willing to work for, was a move to get the money out of politics. money is not speech. that is only one of a growing list of grievous errors made by the worst supreme court in american history, a court which also reinforces another grievous error committed in the early days of the twentieth century, by affirming that corporations are people, with all the rights of individual citizens. corporations are not people, not individuals, not citizens. there are more examples in america of the emperor's new clothes than i care to enumerate.
what ever happened to simple honesty and plain speech? gun-owning americans are not militias, corporations are not persons and money is not speech. get it?
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