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BET YOUR SWEET BIPPIE THAT BUSH~ROVE PONZI TARP BILLIONS ARE ALSO IN THIS ELECTION FUNDING

by LAWYERS FOR POOR AMERICANS Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010 at 7:04 AM

SO YOU STILL DO NOT BELIEVE THAT KARL ROVE AND HIS BILLIONAIRES ARE GOING TO TAKE ABORTION AND GAY MARRIAGE OUT OF AMERICA WITH THEIR BIG $$ MEDIA BRAIN~WASHING IN EVERY COUNTY EVERY STATE AND EVERY CITY IF NEED BE~ THEIR ALSO VERY LOADED WITH BUSH~ROVE $750 BILLION PONZI TARP WALL STREET~BANKERS BAILOUT $$ AND HAVE BEEN WAITING TO SPEND THEM THIS ELECTION CYCLE AND IN MANY OF OUR FUTURE BIG $$ AMERICAN ELECTIONS.

KARL ROVE & HIS BILLIONAIRE CABAL HAVE OVER~RUN the little peoples Government !!!

KARL ROVE'S BILLIONAIRE $$ TEAM HAS CORRUPTED JUSTICE IN AMERICA WITH NO END IN SIGHT.

THIS WEALTHY ELITE CABAL IS SO MUCH IN CONTROL THAT THEY EVEN DO NOT CARE IF ALL OF us little voting Americans UNDERSTAND THE TRUE REALITY ABOUT THEIR CONTROL TACTICS OVER OUR VARIOUS DIVISIONS OF THE PEOPLES GOVERNMENT...

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DR. JOHN H. HUMINS: U.S. SUPREME COURT DECISION AND THE CORPORATE STATE
August 18, 2010 posted by Gordon Duff · 5 Comments

U.S. Supreme Court Decision and the Corporate State:

John H. Humins STAFF WRITER

34In December 2000, the Florida presidential election was in chaos. We remember the hanging chads and the debate about which votes counted and which were to be cast aside. We should also remember the blatant irregularities that prevented thousands of voters, mostly minority, from exercising their constitutional right. The presidential election hung in the balance.

As the electoral bickering grew and Al Gore, the Democratic candidate sought a recount, the Florida Supreme Court ordered a statewide manual recount, but the U.S. Supreme Court jumped into the political imbroglio and put a stay on the order for the recount. The Supreme Court in a highly political and controversial decision made George W. Bush the president of the United States. That judicial action was, in the minds of many, a judicial coup d’etat. I fear that the U.S. Supreme Court has staged another coup. Read on.

On January 21, 2009, the U.S. Supreme Court over-reached on a narrow case dealing with Federal Election Commission’s prohibition of a politically partisan video on Hillary Clinton from being telecast during the primary campaign between Mrs. Clinton and Barack Obama. Under the guise of first Amendment rights, its over-reach gave corporations the right to participate in the political process and use its funds and resources on campaign ads and other political campaign communications, but not direct political contributions to candidates. In doing so, it reversed a century of legislation barring corporations from using their wealth to dominate the political process.

One can go back to 1907, when President Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressives, in both political parties, legislatively placed a ban on corporations from using their vast monetary advantage to dominate the electoral process. This ban was expanded over the decades to keep the power of money from corrupting our political process. This ban is of critical importance for fair elections and to assure that the interests of the American people and the general welfare are served. Many Americans already see that their interests have been compromised by the power of money and vested interests in electoral politics.

Exercising the right to vote is the most important right that the people have to protect their own interests and choose candidates to serve their interests. Most voters exercise that right with great responsibility. Their future and the future of the American Republic depend upon fair and free elections. Their right is now being further threatened by this recent Supreme Court decision.

Obviously, corporations are much more powerful than ordinary citizens. And over the last century, these corporations have grown in size and influence. We have seen a pinnacling of corporate power and influence. The United States has many corporations, but we have oligopolies and multi-national corporations dominating our economic order. Many have demonstrated that they are not interested in serving the public interest; and they have no sense of social responsibility. They seek, as we have recently seen, to serve only their own vested interests, as outsourcing of jobs overseas, terminating employee pensions and health benefits, demonstrate. And as we have all seen in recent decades, corporate lobbyists abound in D.C. and the state capitals to serve vested interests and in turn distort the electoral process.

Moreover, since the 1980s, the concentration of wealth in the U.S., once again, has accelerated and the disparity between the rich and the rest of us has widened greatly. One percent of the American people have 41 percent of the wealth. If you calculate the top five percent of the American people in terms of wealth, it is well over 50 percent. It is the people in the top percentiles, an economic aristocracy, who largely own corporate stock and sit on the boards of these giant corporations. This trend of greater concentration of wealth and power will continue if corporations are allowed to flex their financial muscle and dominate American politics at every level.

The power of corporations and oligopolies has grown over the decades. This latest Supreme Court decision will allow this domination to grow even more. It is not surprising that three of the five justices who supported this decision are members of the Federalist Society, a very conservative legal entity which espouses libertarian views and judicial restraint. Judicial restraint was not exercised by the Society’s three Court members (John Roberts, the Chief Justice, and justices Antonin Scalia and Samuel Alito) in this decision.

This judicial coup will impact all future elections at every level. Its impact will be seen this coming Fall when we have Federal, state and even local elections. Then the American public will see that this judicial decision has dramatic results. Radio and TV broadcasts, and other media will be saturated with political ads. Vested interests will try to shape the perceptions of the electorate and, if recent political ads are any indication, they will be negative and apt to confuse and divide, rather than educate and unite.

Candidates supported by the corporations will most likely be victorious and those elected will be beholden to those who got them elected. And American democracy will be its foremost casualty. Then we will see first-hand that this Supreme Court decision allowed another coup: the ascendancy of the Corporate State.

Is this reason veterans served their country?

John H. Humins, Ph.D., U.S. Army (1966-69) 1/23/10

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4 HONEST little American voter eyes ONLY ...

by LAWYERS FOR POOR AMERICANS Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010 at 1:38 PM

Look out, voters. U.S. Senate clears the way for open season.

Posted: Friday, Jul. 30, 2010

A vital piece of legislation died in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday. Democrats are to blame for larding up the bill with wrong-headed provisions that distracted from the bill's true purpose. Republicans are to blame for being intransigent and not working to get rid of those provisions and passing the crucial underlying policy.

We're talking about the Disclose Act. The purpose of the bill was pretty simple, and utterly sensible. It would have required unions, corporations and other special interest groups on both the left and right to disclose who is bankrolling political ads they run.

The U.S. Supreme Court, in its Citizens United decision in January, for the first time cleared the way for such groups to spend unlimited amounts on political campaigns. That was a bad ruling, but Congress could at least require transparency. The Disclose Act, done right, wouldn't take away or even limit any organization's right to free speech. It would just let people know who's doing the speaking.

Individual candidates are required to "stand by their ad." Unions, corporations and other special interests should be required to, too. In fact, the high court ruled 8-1 in a less publicized decision that government can force financial disclosure from organizations that involve themselves in political campaigns.

The Senate's failure to pass the Disclose Act this week means you'll see endless political attack ads this fall and have no idea who's behind them. Anonymity ensures greater poisoning of public debate. Wherever you are on the political spectrum, you're better off knowing who is trying to influence you.

Senate Democrats came up one vote short of ending a Republican filibuster. They can blame themselves for their inability to attract even one Republican supporter, because they included unnecessary requirements that went beyond disclosure. They banned political spending by businesses that have $10 million or more in government contracts and by companies controlled by foreign nationals. Other provisions barred political spending by companies that received TARP money and by oil drillers. Earlier, the House passed the bill but exempted the National Rifle Association. If Democrats had kept the bill strictly about disclosure, it might have passed.

Republicans, though, showed no interest in compromising. Had they allowed the bill to proceed, they could have worked to strip those provisions from the legislation through amendments. Instead, they sent a message that transparency in politics is unimportant. They said, in effect, that they are OK with special interest groups spewing venom in political ads even with voters unable to know the source.

We in North Carolina will be protected from some of this thanks to legislation the General Assembly passed shortly before adjourning this month. Legislators wisely adopted disclosure requirements that make independent campaigns abide by the same rules as political committees.

We don't yet know what loopholes will be ferreted out from that legislation. We do know that much of the rest of the nation stands unprotected from anonymous political ads, and members of both parties in the U.S. Senate should be held responsible.

Senate sponsor Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., vows to revive the bill in September. That will be too late to clean up this fall's elections. But voters should watch closely to see who is on the side of transparency and who is not.

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