UPDATE!: When I wrote the comments in the previous post, I was very much against the Supreme Court’s decision (to expand the ability of corporations to influence elections with their finances). Since then, I have been forced to reconsider. True, any decision that runs to hundreds of pages is probably up to no good. But there is no way such a long decision could be all bad! Probably, there are things in this decision that We The People can use, and the first order of business should be to study this decision.
In favor of the decision, it must be said that it strikes a blow for free speech! And any rights that it gives to corporations must apply to all corporations, including political parties, 501c3 churches, subversive leagues, PAC’s, and you-name-it! Likewise, it applies to non-501c3 churches and unincorporated bodies, such as clubs and common-law churches.
In addition, any right given by this decision to corporations automatically applies to actual human persons.
Whether this decision turns out, on balance, to be good or bad, the first order of business is to study it, to determine its most likely results as well as its validity under the Constitution as interpreted according to original intent. Grand Juries should investigate, likewise Independent Commissions. Their should be discussions and debates.
And if corporations are persons, maybe they should get health care and be subject to death panels! (Oops!–They already are subject to death panels. These are called bankruptcy courts.)
