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echo: pol_inc
to: EARL CROASMUN
from: DAVE DRUM
date: 2010-05-02 10:27:00
subject: Citizens United ruling

-=> Earl Croasmun wrote to Dave Drum <=-

 ~>  EC> The first amendment to the United States Constitution agrees with the
 ~>  EC> decision in Citizens United.  You posted a site for those who do not
 ~>  EC> like free speech.  How about one for those who DO like free speech?

 ~> How about understanding that a "corporate person" is a legal fiction
 ~> limiting liability of the actual persons involved in that corporation.

 EC> Completely false, since the limitation of legal liability of
 EC> shareholders far, far predates the Supreme Court cases on personhood,
 EC> and has NOTHING TO DO with those cases.

It is NOT completely false. A "corporate person" IS a legal
fiction. Your straw
man argument proves noting germane to that. 
 
 EC> But also completely irrelevant, since the Citizens United case had
 EC> nothing to do with liability of corporations.  It was about free
 EC> speech.

You have a lot of trouble following logic and/or understanding cause and
effect, don't you, earl? The case was about granting free speech to a legal
fiction. And the supremes screwed the pooch.

Of course fleabags who tie personal worth to net-worth couldn't begin to grasp
how egregious the court's error was.

I suggest you read a short story by Admiral Bob (Robert Anson Heinlein) called
"Jerry Was A Man" to begin to learn what it takes to make a real
man/person.

ENJOY!!!

From Uncle Dirty Dave's Kitchen
Home of YAHOOOOAHHHH Hot Sauce & Hardin Cider 

 

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