Sunday, October 10, 2010

Can The Court Answer This?

I don't know. Maybe I've been too hard on the Supreme Court. After all, they're just plain, down home country barristers, who have answered their countries call to be interpreters, right? That's right, they agreed to spend the rest of their lives telling us what we can and can't do. By that I mean they agreed to interpret the Constitution and tell us what it means, right? Well, no. Actually they agreed to compare what people do and tell us if that's what the Constitution told us we can do. And if we aren't supposed to do that, they tell us why they think we're wrong. Of course, nobody can tell them if they're wrong, because apparently they're never wrong, except when the next Supreme Court says they are. This gets more confusing all the time. Anyway, our current Supreme Court, which was put in place because the last one was said to be making law instead of interpreting the Constitution, has been busy writing law. See, here's the thing. They decided that Corporations can, because they're citizens too, they can spend as much money as they want on elections and they can do it in secret. What the court didn't think of is how it affects our elections. For one thing it means that our elections will no longer be decided by voting. They will be decided by who spends the most money. And it doesn't matter where the money comes from. It can come from corporations who have broken the law many, many times and are mad at a Senator or Congressman, or even from a foreign country. How can this be? Because it's all secret. For instance, the TARP program that bailed out a bunch of banks and bankers. Now those bankers who got billions from the government for free can spend any amount of that money to buy elections and nobody will know. Ya know who's getting the most money? The Republicans. Next time around it'll probably be the Democrats. What I don't understand is how come the Supreme Court allowed these corporations to do this in secret? So, how come?

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