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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Lane3 who wrote (129909)2/1/2010 6:44:02 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 542214
 
You say "speak" to a dog and the dog barks. All the parties seem to think it's speech.

Funny.

You say "speak" to the dog, and it recognizes the sound that indicates you want it to bark. It doesn't know the meaning of the term beyond "she wants me to bark", if it even knows that much and isn't just operating under its conditioning. You could make the phrase "corporation", or "don't speak", and get the same response if that is how you trained the dog.

If they don't have standing, then their speech isn't protected.

The amendment as written is a limitation of congress, only indirectly a protection of rights for those with standing. Congress has no power to do some specific thing whoever or whatever it applies to.

If you think that corporations have standing because the people who inhabit them have standing, then brooks have standing because people swimming in them have standing.

The argument is pretty much a non-sequitur. The people in the brook are not part of the brook and don't operate collectively as a brook.
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