RE: Lets Talk About Citizens United
November 7, 2014 at 10:26 am
(This post was last modified: November 7, 2014 at 10:29 am by Heywood.)
(November 7, 2014 at 10:14 am)abaris Wrote: In case, this is a real question and not just baiting.
The main problem I see, is citizens united advocating money in politics. That gives corporations an immense leverage over normal citizens. It advocates politics being for sale to the highest bidder.
But one can't make a point of something being objectively wrong, since some people like to be fucked deep and hard. So, it boils down to personal taste.
You are conflating a problem with a court decision.
Corporations are tools of citizens. The Annie Leonard's video railing against Citizen United was produce by Free Range Studios....which I understand to be a privately held corporation. Her video could have been banned by the government if Citizen United was upheld. The law that was stuck down wasn't the way to go about solving what you see to be a problem. The court did right by striking it down.
Now I don't like Annie Leonard...she's a moron as far as I am concerned....but she has a right to free speech....and she has a right to use the power of a corporation to make her message heard.