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Lets Talk About Citizens United
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RE: Lets Talk About Citizens United
(November 7, 2014 at 12:28 pm)Heywood Wrote: In order to make it fair you have to curtail the speech of some.....and this is blatantly unconstitutional. The constitution guarantees you the right to exercise speech. It does not guarantee everyone have the same amount of it.

No, it's not unconstitutional. The constitution promises free speech. It doesn't promise you can buy more.

As conservatives are fond of saying when we're talking about Occupy Wall Street, free speech has limits. We all know and accept this. The question is what limits?

Since we agree there should be limits, I'd rather structure those limits to be fair and help ensure democracy, not oligarchy.
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Lets Talk About Citizens United - by Heywood - November 7, 2014 at 8:04 am
RE: Lets Talk About Citizens United - by LostLocke - November 7, 2014 at 9:54 am
RE: Lets Talk About Citizens United - by Heywood - November 7, 2014 at 10:06 am
RE: Lets Talk About Citizens United - by DeistPaladin - November 7, 2014 at 10:47 am
RE: Lets Talk About Citizens United - by Heywood - November 7, 2014 at 11:06 am
RE: Lets Talk About Citizens United - by DeistPaladin - November 7, 2014 at 11:34 am
RE: Lets Talk About Citizens United - by Heywood - November 7, 2014 at 11:50 am
RE: Lets Talk About Citizens United - by DeistPaladin - November 7, 2014 at 11:56 am
RE: Lets Talk About Citizens United - by Heywood - November 7, 2014 at 12:07 pm
RE: Lets Talk About Citizens United - by DeistPaladin - November 7, 2014 at 12:14 pm
RE: Lets Talk About Citizens United - by DeistPaladin - November 7, 2014 at 12:17 pm
RE: Lets Talk About Citizens United - by Heywood - November 7, 2014 at 12:28 pm
RE: Lets Talk About Citizens United - by DeistPaladin - November 7, 2014 at 1:07 pm
RE: Lets Talk About Citizens United - by Heywood - November 7, 2014 at 1:17 pm
RE: Lets Talk About Citizens United - by DeistPaladin - November 7, 2014 at 1:31 pm
RE: Lets Talk About Citizens United - by Heywood - November 7, 2014 at 1:37 pm
RE: Lets Talk About Citizens United - by DeistPaladin - November 7, 2014 at 2:43 pm
RE: Lets Talk About Citizens United - by Heywood - November 7, 2014 at 3:30 pm
RE: Lets Talk About Citizens United - by DeistPaladin - November 7, 2014 at 6:17 pm
RE: Lets Talk About Citizens United - by Heywood - November 7, 2014 at 7:07 pm
RE: Lets Talk About Citizens United - by Heywood - November 7, 2014 at 12:30 pm
RE: Lets Talk About Citizens United - by Mister Agenda - November 7, 2014 at 12:34 pm
RE: Lets Talk About Citizens United - by Heywood - November 7, 2014 at 12:15 pm
RE: Lets Talk About Citizens United - by abaris - November 7, 2014 at 10:14 am
RE: Lets Talk About Citizens United - by Heywood - November 7, 2014 at 10:26 am
RE: Lets Talk About Citizens United - by Mister Agenda - November 7, 2014 at 11:36 am
RE: Lets Talk About Citizens United - by DeistPaladin - November 7, 2014 at 11:43 am
RE: Lets Talk About Citizens United - by Mister Agenda - November 7, 2014 at 12:29 pm
RE: Lets Talk About Citizens United - by Minimalist - November 7, 2014 at 1:42 pm
RE: Lets Talk About Citizens United - by Jaysyn - November 7, 2014 at 8:41 pm
RE: Lets Talk About Citizens United - by Heywood - November 7, 2014 at 9:45 pm

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