Tyranny by Money Can NOT be Free Speech

[disrupter]

Tyranny by Money Can Not be Free Speech.
In regards to a case the Supreme Court will soon be considering, which they intend to address on a broad scope.

Constitutional Free speech refers to the relatively inherent equity of people to vocalize.

From a time without electronic amplification, or radio or television broadcasting. Where in a very real way, people had much more equal capacity to speak & express their minds.

The Commercial control of the Public's Airwaves is mostly paid access.
Poor people have no money so they have none of that speech so it is inherently NOT free speech.

Even required or donated free air time for candidates is a censoring selection process.

Corporation's have no civil rights. They have no right to free speech for themselves. They are simply allowed certain indulgences by the government & public. They have no right to meddle in the people's elections.

When these same rich corporations tyrannize the Public's Airwaves with their propaganda & agendas,

they drown out & eliminate everyone else's freedom to speak.

Their tyranny is not an empowerment of free speech it is a KILLER of freedom to speak.

This is a process of censorship by monetary power, which is inevitably unequally, & unfreely distributed.

Elections belong to voters & concerned citizens, NOT to all the expatriot, tax dodging corporations trying to hit our treasury for more corporate welfare or to twist laws into unfair rigged markets, designed to rip everyone else off.

America is the people.
The American government belongs to the people of America.
Corporations are economic entities that we allow at our pleasure to operate here.

We need to put arrogant, corrupt corporations back in their places,

and we the people need to regain command of our own government once again.

[Captain Obvious]

Tyranny by Money Can Not be Free Speech.
In regards to a case the Supreme Court will soon be considering, which they intend to address on a broad scope.

Constitutional Free speech refers to the relatively inherent equity of people to vocalize.

From a time without electronic amplification, or radio or television broadcasting. Where in a very real way, people had much more equal capacity to speak & express their minds.

The Commercial control of the Public's Airwaves is mostly paid access.
Poor people have no money so they have none of that speech so it is inherently NOT free speech.

Even required or donated free air time for candidates is a censoring selection process.

Corporation's have no civil rights. They have no right to free speech for themselves. They are simply allowed certain indulgences by the government & public. They have no right to meddle in the people's elections.

When these same rich corporations tyrannize the Public's Airwaves with their propaganda & agendas,

they drown out & eliminate everyone else's freedom to speak.

Their tyranny is not an empowerment of free speech it is a KILLER of freedom to speak.

This is a process of censorship by monetary power, which is inevitably unequally, & unfreely distributed.

Elections belong to voters & concerned citizens, NOT to all the expatriot, tax dodging corporations trying to hit our treasury for more corporate welfare or to twist laws into unfair rigged markets, designed to rip everyone else off.

America is the people.
The American government belongs to the people of America.
Corporations are economic entities that we allow at our pleasure to operate here.

We need to put arrogant, corrupt corporations back in their places,

and we the people need to regain command of our own government once again.

That's great.

Tell me, oh wise one - how do we accomplish this?

All this shit in theory gets everyone orgasmic - fine. Put pencil to paper instead of pissing and moaning about it and I'd say your post makes fucking sense for a change.

These are the same fucking people who sucked down the fucking "change" kool-aid and are witnessing what might be the most fucking disastrous presidency in history.

Tell me, Nostradamus - how do we regain corporate confidence? How do we regain control of the government by the masses?

Explain that to me.

Or just shut the fuck up.

[disrupter]

Firstly we ban anyone but registered voters [or perhaps legal residents] from contributing directly to any politician's campaign.
Which isn't public financing, just to be clear.

On public financing though,

Where public financing was instituted, in Arizona, the candidates spent most their time talking to & with voters, for a change.
Compared to most elections where politicians spend 9/10ths of their time pandering to corrupting fat cats with money.

um, Captain Obvious, this isn't, how do we regain corporate confidence? what's the relevance of that? please feel free to explain.

[Captain Obvious]

Firstly we ban anyone but registered voters [or perhaps legal residents] from contributing directly to any politician's campaign.
Which isn't public financing, just to be clear.

On public financing though,

Where public financing was instituted, in Arizona, the candidates spent most their time talking to & with voters, for a change.
Compared to most elections where politicians spend 9/10ths of their time pandering to corrupting fat cats with money.

um, Captain Obvious, this isn't, what's the relevance of that? please feel free to explain.

I dunno - you made the fucking statement. You tell me.

We need to put arrogant, corrupt corporations back in their places,

Or don't you read the shit you cut and paste?

Here's my plan, for what it's fucking worth.

Every candidate gets a capped campaign warchest. Say a half million. That's it - spend it any fucking way you want.

That solves two problems. First, the mythological 3rd party candidate gets to campaign on a fucking equal playing field. Instead of getting buried by the two main candidates that are amassing a campaign fund a hundred fucking times more, they get fair radio time.

Second, I don't have to listen to the same fucking commercials - over, and over, and over, and fucking over again two days straight prior to election.

This is how you pose a solution.

Consider yourself educated.

[disrupter]

What about people who simply want to get 1/2 a million dollars & don't really care about winning an election? Is there any threshold qualifying conditions? x signatures on a petition? percentages on public opinion polls? A member of a certified political party?

I do agree that in theory that would eliminate all the campaign contribution corruption, provided the non-trivial working details could be worked out.