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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (72175)	1/22/2010 1:56:38 PM
From: abuelita	Read Replies (2) of 74559

its official. its no longer "...government of the people, by the people, for the people..." but "...government of the corporations, by the corporations, for the corporations..." Corporate Personhood Should Be Banned, Once and For All ______________________________________________________________ Outrageous SCOTUS Decision Should Reignite Most Necessary of Debates by Ralph Nader Published on Thursday, January 21, 2010 by CommonDreams.org Today’s decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission shreds the fabric of our already weakened democracy by allowing corporations to more completely dominate our corrupted electoral process. It is outrageous that corporations already attempt to influence or bribe our political candidates through their political action committees (PACs), which solicit employees and shareholders for donations. With this decision, corporations can now also draw on their corporate treasuries and pour vast amounts of corporate money, through independent expenditures, into the electoral swamp already flooded with corporate campaign PAC contribution dollars. This corporatist, anti-voter decision is so extreme that it should galvanize a grassroots effort to enact a Constitutional Amendment to once and for all end corporate personhood and curtail the corrosive impact of big money on politics. It is indeed time for a Constitutional amendment to prevent corporate campaign contributions from commercializing our elections and drowning out the civic and political voices and values of citizens and voters. It is way overdue to overthrow “King Corporation” and restore the sovereignty of “We the People”! ____________ commondreams.org

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