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Occupy the Courts

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"A Promise To The American People." How OWS Can Achieve It's Objectives.

There is still time for Occupy Wall Street to shape the face of the 2012 election and... more

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Need to Reset Our Government

Our political system just plain sucks. Phew, glad I got that out. Okay, seriously,... more

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The Internet Blacklist vs. The Constitution

Both scholars concluded that the proposed law could not pass muster under the U.S.... more

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Eternal Vigilance: Sovereign Immunity - The 11th Amendment Revisited

"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty."-- Wendell Phillips, (1811-1884)... more

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Legal Evil? In their own words - Part 1 of 3

This is a teaser from an article I wrote on Examiner.com: From Public School, to... more

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Who is on the Dime?

who is on the dime?The answer is… Franklin Roosevelt. Franklin Roosevelt is on... more

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‘Shameful’ UN vote ‘may lead to more gay executions’

Peter Tatchell and LGBT rights groups are criticising the removal of an amendment... more

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Marijuana as Religious Sacrament - Marijuana Churches, Drugs, & Freedom of Religion

Religious drug use has presented a conundrum for the U.S. government as it attempts to... more

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Pub Culture: The Prohibition.

We talked about what the 21st amendment was. Now learn fun facts about the 18th... more

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Say no to Karnataka Preservation of Trees Act Amendment - Petitions

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Constitutional Amendment picks up speed, sort of. « Beyond Words

I wrote earlier about the most effective way to deal with the recent Supreme Court ruling allowing corporations to spend unlimited amounts of money on political campaigns is a Constitutional Amendment clarifying that money is not speech, and is therefore subject to regulation. I see now that both MoveOn and Public Citizen are taking up the cause of passing a constitutional amendment to “reverse” that Supreme Court decision. Unfortunately, they are backing the an amendment that ensures that corporations stay in power. Their amendment states that First Amendment rights belong to natural persons and the press and do not apply to for-profit corporations. However, the press is mostly owned by for-profit corporations, so right there that amendment contradicts itself. The problem isn’t freedom of speech. Everyone should have freedom of speech, including corporations. The problem is equating money with speech. Money is not speech. A dollar bill is not pro-abortion or anti-abortion. It carries no message, no idea, no information. It is not speech at all. Money is power. Money is a method of transferring energy. We need a Constitutional Amendment clarifying that money is not speech, and is therefore subject to regulation.

At the same time, we need another Constitutional Amendment clarifying that corporations are not persons under the law. Corporations are chartered by our government, and are therefore creations of our government. Our government, our creations. We the People have every right to regulate our creations.

These two Constitutional Amendments will clearly get to the roots of the problem without contradiction or confusion. Please go to MoveOn at then click on contact, and ask them to reconsider their position, and to take on a cause that will actually solve the problem. Also please go to Public Citizen at and tell them the same thing.

The last time I posted here about this Constitutional Amendment, someone responded that we can’t pass such an amendment, and they sited their experience with trying to get an equal rights for women amendment passed. I appreciate their perspective, however I have two responses to that:
1. This time it may well be that the survival of our Democratic Constitutional Republic is at stake, so there may be more support for amendments that will really get to the root of the problem.
2. The other option is to let our nation slide away into a corporate-run tyranny. Our founding fathers staked their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor on the cause of creating this nation that has a system in place for us to modify our government without war, without violence. The least we can do is use that system as best we can to keep our government in our hands. If it’s going to be a government of the people, we have to do it.

Eli DumitruI wrote earlier about the most effective way to deal with the recent Supreme Court... more