Community | December 24, 2009 | 14 comments

Palast: Supreme Court to OK Al Qaeda donation for Sarah Palin?

source: http://www.gregpalast.com/supreme-court-to-ok-al-qaeda-donation-for-sarah-palin/#more-3233

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I thought that headline would get your attention. And it's true.

I'm biting my nails waiting for the Supreme Court's ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, which could come down as early as today. At issue: whether corporations, as "unnatural persons," can make contributions to political campaigns.

The outcome is foregone: the six GOP appointees to the court are expected to use the case to junk federal laws that now bar corporations from stuffing campaign coffers.
Technically, there's a narrower matter before the court in this case: whether the McCain-Feingold Act may prohibit corporations from funding "independent" campaign advertisements such as the "Swift Boat" ads that smeared John Kerry. However, campaign finance reformers are steeling themselves for the court's right wing to go much further, knocking down all longstanding rules against donations by corporate treasuries.

Allowing company campaign spending will not, as progressives fear, cause an avalanche of corporate cash into politics. Sadly, that's already happened: we have been snowed under by tens of millions of dollars given through corporate PACs and "bundling" of individual contributions from corporate pay-rollers.

The court's expected decision is far, far more dangerous to U.S. democracy. Think: Manchurian candidates.

I'm losing sleep over the millions — or billions — of dollars that could flood into our elections from ARAMCO, the Saudi Oil corporation's U.S. unit; or from the maker of "New Order" fashions, the Chinese People's Liberation Army. Or from Bin Laden Construction corporation. Or Bin Laden Destruction Corporation.

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14 comments // Palast: Supreme Court to OK Al Qaeda donation for Sarah Palin?

  • adam0324
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      adam0324  

    • Americans of all races, we can no longer be divided by our skin color. This is our country we must protect it! We must advance it! We can no longer spend money at places like Wal-Mart that send thousands of dollars to foreign countries. Of course you may say it’s Cheaper, but is it really? Next time you buy something at Wal-Mart think about all those American jobs that are lost by your dollar going overseas!

    • 2 years ago
  • WhiteNoise
  • kennymotown
  • peterzylstramoore
  • PressCore
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      PressCore  
    • WhiteNoise:

      Your Sinclair Lewis quotation indicates why I voted for Obama. Not because I believed he would walk the walk because he could talk the talk, but because my real heros JFK and LBJ were the symbols of a bygone era where Corporate subversion of the Gummint didn't appear quite as menacing yet. And because they didn't make it appear as though we were Homeboy D. Clown. It's mainly because Palin was so flagrantly worse, there was no choice. "Religion is the last refuge of the scoundrel" Draping herself in the flag and carrying a cross as if she were Van Helsing confronting Dracula shows how much of a con artist sleezoid she realy is. No, I 'm 60, and I've seen how a good man like Jimmy Carter floundered because he wasn't in the pocket of CCC: the Confederation of Corporate Corruption that buys politicians like stage props and makes sycophantic, bobbleheaded, yes men out of them. Palin would have been a nightmare worse than Nixon,Reagan. Bush1, Bush2, and McLame. I recall during the election campaign Microsoft sponsored her solicitation to drill for more oil in Alaska. As Dub'ya was a Hitler clone, Palin is a Bush clone. She only would have made the USA perpetualy more dependent on oil and worsened the world Big Oil Monopoly stranglehold on all of us, while toasting to her success. If that bitch were any more
      transparent you could see a For Sale sign flashing under her skin. Homey don't play dat.

    • 2 years ago
  • SleepDirt
  • WhiteNoise
  • DeliaTheArtist
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      DeliaTheArtist  

    • I think there should be a limit on campaign spending. If everyone had the same amount of money, it wouldn't be all about the lobbyists and buying prime "ad space" to flood the media with campaign messages- everyone would have to make due with a little, and it would be more about the message itself and the candidate's ability to speak to the people, not their ability to spend millions of corporate dollars and later protect the special interests. I also think this would help third party candidates get a better shot at being heard!

    • 2 years ago
  • SleepDirt
  • PressCore
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      PressCore  

    • No surprise that honest Journalists representing a Free Press are dressed like P.I.s is it ? Many people wouldn't know what the Truth was if it jumped up and bit them in their asses. It has to take a detective to uncover it because the Truth is usualy buried under so much shit the Corporate TV doublespeak defecates to supress it. P.I.'s don't generaly have the rep of being "nice", They have the rep of being tough. Nice derives from the Latin phrase ne cognoscere meaning to ignore. It's not nice to notice socialy unacceptable topics like the one this news article feratures because it would ring a painfuly cognitive dissonant chime with the 40+ % who voted for their villian hero Palin. The reason why the Truth is allowed to be buried,is because it's usualy too ugly with a buried in shit smell tainting it from the ignorant pretending not to notice it. But when you consider the alternative-that WW2 was fought to undo the inevitable consequencess of "the Big Lie" (comprised of a multitude of lesser lies forming the pyramid supporting the 3rd Reich), even the buried in shit smell that would gag a veteran sewer worker is preferable.

    • 2 years ago
  • kennymotown
  • SleepDirt
  • desertcat
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      desertcat  

    • We all know the rich are greedy and can never have enough toys or money. And it should come to no ones surprise the greed of the republican party. One just has to look at their voting record to know it is all for us and none for you.

    • 2 years ago
  • Progresshiv
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