Supreme court turns nation over to corporations

There have been two times in my life that I have heard a radio report of a supreme court ruling and thought, "Oh shit! That's going to change things." I remember where I was when I heard it and the time of day and what I was doing, etc. It was like I remember where I was and what I was doing when I learned that President Kennedy had been assassinated, and when Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated, and Bobby Kennedy, my senator at the time in New York and candidate for President was assassinated.

Similarly, I remember where I was and what I was doing when I heard that abortion had been legalized in the Roe vs. Wade decision, and today I will never forget when I learned of the Supreme Court ruling that corporations can spend unlimited amounts of money in campaigns.

This is the end of democracy and fascism has become the law of the land. Fascism is when industry and government take over the governance of a land.

Corporations have already usurped our government right down to writing legislation and paying for their candidate campaigns. Now it has become legal for corporations to do so. A legal entity has now been declared a person with the same rights as a person, and it can use its massive resources to influence the society which governs its existence and operation to its will.

The scary movies lead us to believe that it was computers that would robotically come to rule mankind as in the epic movie 2,001:Space Odyssy when Hal takes over. It is not the computers, it is the soulless corporation in a capitalism out of control, whose soul value is the financial bottom line. People can be crushed for money, whose only utility is to enhance the corporation's profit. Mammon has taken over our government where the sole value is greed and corporate survival.

This comes from the Democracy Now web site which ran a piece on this supreme court ruling today, 01/22/10.

In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court rules corporations can spend unlimited amounts of money to elect and defeat candidates. One lawmaker describes it as the worst Supreme Court decision since the Dred Scott case justifying slavery. We speak with constitutional law professor, Jamin Raskin.

To listen to the piece, click here.