THE SUPREME COURT ABOLISHES DEMOCRACY?!?

[John Richard Clinton Maenpaa]

THE SUPREME COURT ABOLISHES DEMOCRACY?!?

Last September, I wrote The Hightower Lowdown about how the Roberts' Court could throw out over 100 years of campaign finance law.

Remember their names: Alito, Kennedy, Roberts, Scalia, and Thomas.

Yesterday, from within the dark isolation of the Supreme Court, these five men pulled off a black-robed coup against the American people's democratic authority. In an unprecedented perversion of judicial power, this court cabal has decreed that corporations have a free-speech "right" to dip into their corporate coffers and spend unlimited sums of money to elect or defeat candidates of their choosing.

Corporate interests already had too much money power over our political system. No other group in America comes anywhere near the spending clout that this relatively small clutch of wealthy special interests wields over our elections and government. So it's ludicrous for anyone – much less Supreme Court judges – to argue that the corporate voice is a victim of political "censorship." This is not merely judicial activism, it is judicial radicalism.

Thomas Jefferson warned about the dangerous rise of corporate power, declaring that must "crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations." Today, I'm sure that founding patriots like Jefferson are not simply spinning in their graves at the Supreme Court's surrender to this aristocracy – they're trying to claw their way out of their graves to throttle all five of the traitors.

We MUST fight back. Many good groups are working on this issue, and we all have to get involved to fight against this corporate take over of our political system. Public Citizen has a petition http://action.citizen.org/t/10315/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=2190 we can sign. Common Cause is asking us to contact your congressperson http://www.commoncause.org/siteapps/advocacy/ActionItem.aspx?c=dkLN... and make sure they have signed on to the Fair Elections Now Act. I mentioned other good groups http://www.hightowerlowdown.org/node/2094 that are working on this issue. Get in touch with them. Let's fight the good fight... and win! Onward!