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Politics : View from the Center and Left

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To: TimF who wrote (129631)1/29/2010 7:53:53 PM
From: Jeff Hayden  Read Replies (1) of 541957
 
The constitution doesn't say that my dog doesn't have free speech either-

Your dog is neither a person itself, nor a collection of people.

Your dog is not capable of speech of this type. It can not express political opinions. It might express affection for, or dislike of, a politician it met, but that would be for personal not political reasons.


A corporation is also not endowed with the ability to speak. In fact a corporation has no brain and cannot express an opinion because it has none. The CEO or president, or owner can speak for him/herself but is not the "voice" of a corporation. They can, on their own behalf, express freely that which would help the corporation.

People who join non-profit organizations that have people all of a like mind on certain subjects can pool their funds to obtain political advantage, but for-profit corporations are not comprised of people of like political mind. In fact they are largely made up of people who simply need a job.
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