Justices, 5-4, Reject Corporate Spending Limit
"Overruling two important precedents about the First Amendment rights of corporations, a bitterly divided Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the government may not ban political spending by corporations in candidate elections."If this doesn't shoot the idea of 'checks and balances' to hell, than I don't know what would.
We've always been taught in school that we live in such a just society because we have this thing called checks and balances where the judicial, executive, and legislative branches of government are supposed to keep each other in check. That and we have have this mystical thing called Democracy...
But the Supreme Court especially aren't even elected, but rather, appointed for life. They're politicians dressed in fancy robes mascaraing around with an air of moral authority. They serve the agendas of those who appoint them (after all, the president is going to appoint someone who is going to serve his agenda) and back the agendas of said ruling politicians with an accepted infallible logic (after all, wasn't it the Supreme Court that justified slavery as well as jim crow segregation?).
The president is hardly elected by the people. With this idea of electoral colleges and jerry mandering and re-districting, we have the consolidation of voting power and the systematic disenfranchisement of a strategic population of people. In addition, a horrific portion of people of color have either been to prison or are currently serving time in prison, something which nullifies one's right to vote. So we have to question, who does the president serve/represent and who gets to vote in the president? Certainly not the poor and oppressed black and brown people.
And with this new ruling from the Supreme Court, what little saving grace the legislative or execute branch had is long gone. We'd be fools to believe we lived in a politically free society.
Who do the corporations serve and for what purpose? Who is silenced as a result?
Corporations exist to create profit and serve the interest of the rich. Plain and simple. Giving corporations unlimited access to the political system only means that this government will only be further invested in the welfare of the rich and less concerned with the masses.
What does that mean for us?
With corporations such as Corrections Corporation of America giving millions to politicians, the abolition of the prison industrial complex will never come about through the legal system and countless people of color will continue to be sent to prisons or brutalized by the pigs everyday.
This further solidifies the fact that revolution will never come through the ballot with the insane amount of say that corporations have in the operations and future of this nation. Wars will never stop so long as corporations as Halliburton have a say. Exploitation of the earth will never stop so long as big oil has a say.
I say, fuck the law. Fuck this legal system. Fuck the uniformed pigs that defend it by any means necessary.
Of course this ruling isn't getting media play - the corporations that own the media outlets won't have it. We need to stop playing by their rules (God, has anyone even tried to read legislation? It's near impossible to understand and comprehend the shit they write and who has the luxury and time to fully understand all that legal jaron?) and start making our own community agreements and guidelines by which we adhere to.
Power to the people, not the legal or political system!
Self-determinism! Let's have it.
This is so ridiculous.
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