RE: Lets Talk About Citizens United
November 7, 2014 at 1:31 pm
(This post was last modified: November 7, 2014 at 1:32 pm by DeistPaladin.)
(November 7, 2014 at 1:17 pm)Heywood Wrote: What your saying is you have a right to speech and the government can't prevent you from speaking.....but the government can prevent you from buying poster board or markers or a megaphone. Is that your position?
If so consider this: The constitution guarantees freedom of press. Can it make it illegal for you to buy a printing press and paper, lest you have more freedom of press than the next guy?
Freedom of speech allows you the freedom to spend your money to engage in that speech....just as freedom of the press allows you the freedom to spend your money to engage in press.
I'm just going to repost the rest of my post that you ignored:
DeistPaladin Wrote: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.
Until you explain why free speech has limits but we shouldn't limit the rich to prevent them from creating an oligarchy, I'll just keep reposting that statement.
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