Don't Get Rolled

Fight corporate money in politics at http://www.DontGetRolled.org. The Supreme Court on September 9, 2009 hears a case, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, which re-opens the
question of whether there should be ANY limits on corporate money in our elections. The potential result? A century of
modest limits on corporate campaign contributions could be rolled back and corporate money could flood our elections to
an even greater extent than they do today. Later this fall, the Supreme Court is expected to hand down a decision. Public
Citizen and activists across the nation are pledging to protest this outrage if the decision allows for more corporate money
and influence in politics. Corporations are not citizens! We need citizen-funded not corporate-funded candidates!
Sign our Pledge to Protest petition and show your support for fair elections.

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[WJKPhD]

NAÏVE NAÏVE Obama raised over $740,000,000 Most of it from his favorite corporate bundlers. Why do you want to PROTECT this situation? You are not contributing to Democracy. However, Internet Voting can be used to Super-Democratize US elections.

William J. Kelleher, Ph.D.

[PublicCitizenInc]

We're not trying to "protect" the system. In fact, we are troubled by the amount of money that bundlers raised for Obama AND McCain. True public financing of elections is the answer. But what the Supreme Court might do in Citizens United v FEC would blow open the floodgates to corporate cash in our elections. If you think it's bad now, you haven't seen anything yet.

[ErnestTSpoon]

What this country needs a new Constitutional amendment striping corporations of 14th Amendment rights granted by the SOTUS in St Clara Co. v Southern Pacific Railroad. Corporations are not persons!

[SpiritLadyArtist]

I think they are already bought and paid for for the most part except for a couple like Dennis K and a few others.

Barb

[yakyakyak69]

The Radical Progressive Left has their panties in a knot because THEIR corporate media (msnbc, cnbc, Fox, NBC, CBS, PBS) just LOST its monopoly on political speech.

Speech was NOT free before, but it is now!

As long as the advertising is correct and not a lie, then we can NEVER have too much information!

BTW, there are all kinds of laws on the books to prevent Defamation which is any wrongful injury to the reputation of a person or entity.

[dullsvillain]

Corpocracy sucks !

I signed your petition and several others......

[NatureLegalized]

END SO-CALLED WAR ON DRUGS NOW!

"Let us declare nature to be legitimate. All plants should be declared legal, and all animals for that matter. The notion of illegal plants and animals is obnoxious and ridiculous." -Terence McKenna

"The drug war has arguably been the single most devastating, dysfunctional, harmful social policy since slavery."

- Norm Stamper, former Seattle Police Chief

[psychocycledad]

So... you actually agree with this ad then. The reason why companies get a free ride is becouse of their campaign contributions. Small business has no politcal power, therefore less freedom.

[psychocycledad]

We all know this has been happening for a long time, but this is an especially important decision. You can tell the important issues in that they dont get a lot of news coverage.

[WJKPhD]

First, the worst that can happen is more of the same. Corporations already own Congress and the pres (eg, Obama follows Bush's rule of no negotiations for drug prices). Can't get much worse than this. Second, you guys are misleading your viewers into thinking they can influence the S Ct with piddling protests. That's not how our system works.

[Song476]

I got an idea: fuck over those corporate scum

[whynotflip]

global warming doesn't exist. it's global dimming.

[WJKPhD]

S Ct (esp Roberts) thinks that "money is speech." Therefore, restrictions on spending money in campaigns is a violation of the 1st Amd. The Ct will probably allow more money in.

WJKPhD

[WJKPhD]

Bing me

William J. Kelleher, Ph.D.

I'm the Internet voting guy.