today the supreme court ruled five-to-four
that uh...
roles
prohibiting corporations from spending
uh... their own money in an unlimited away on campaigns anton i issues had
been lifted
for all
in a tremendous amount of trouble
this is a disastrous decision
now let's be clear on what it means
bakit just give unlimited amount of money
to a specific campaign
they can say here scott brown are martha cochlear whoever it is here take all
this money
uh... this applies to
corporations also applies labor you
but they can spend unlimited number of uh... of dollars
campaign ads of their own
making in choosing
and on um... on issues acts
and mccain feingold uh...
law had said you-know-what you can run certain number of ads or certain kinds
of ads
uh... right before an election
that has also been overturned
so now you can run as always to the election
that you thought corporate america
controlled our politicians before
teri ye get a load of what happens after this
because if they can pour in unlimited amount of money and they don't have the
given twenty three hundred dollars at a time or
ste you know find different ways of squeezing the money and by pouring in
from the employees its own which they can still do they can pull the money
impacts and give it specifically to the candidates
uh... but
letting all restrictions go on how much money they can spend on politics
through ads
data absolutely take over our system
completely
because money controls if u
because money is information
if you give the wrong information the american people
uh... then
uh... they're gonna vote the wrong way
update data or your updated overwhelm the system
now no one should be in favor
this was a conservative court that made this decision
but conservatives should you be happy about
of course not
why do you want your politicians
not only corporate america well multinational corporations how does that
benefited
you will hear rush limbaugh and glenn backup boxes so it's a great thing right
but think about a why is it a great thing for you
ami if you're working at one of these corporations they knew what happened to
have undue influence great right
that's our free speech free speech free speech
okay good
n look we have the right free speech but we also can't yell fired a crowded
theater everybody knows that there are limits of the six if you don't put
limits on this
well they may be able to take over the holes system to their advantage that if
you're concerned he still up
sold on that
thing about this further
uh... element
they don't have to be american corporations
i sound inc a member when we had a blow up about the united arab emirates
company that was going to come over and take over reports
dis bush had cut that deal with them
that they could pour it all sorts of money and they don't have to say always
to you a door it's a this corporation that i corporation
they just support the candidates that are in favor of that particular
corporation from
saudi arabia or europe or japan or china or wherever they happen to be
or for america
they in effect go to the partisan said look here's what i'm gonna do
i can understand the ratification
i believe there run
ten million stuff dollars with about twenty million take look at their
billions ought to make from the u_s_ is government
are often heard million dollars whether that's you there
for you
or against you
now what would you like
uh... using politician can withstand that kind of pressure
and i think it was said the calibration it but i'm now
you're not going to get conservative principles
you're not gonna get liberal principles you had to get mater principles
europe all lead any get
corporate principles that's was paying the bills
and that's what's paying the money
and buying
information fed to the american people
it's a disastrous idea
caterpillar that of course it editing eliminating different ways first of all
constantly speed
corporations are not human beings
these are constitutional rights given to united states citizens
at a corporation
although of course is that a mathematician of people that people run
the corporation
people on the corporation
itself is not a
isn't that a citizen is not a human being
of course you can be treated differently
you can tell that obviously began by the example though foreign corporations
says that corporation from
iran have just as much rights as united states citizens that's absurd
of course they go
now that you might say oh let's not realistic is america wouldn't allow that
really
like i said george bush
lots of corporations from the u eighteen in different parts of the lease
who was he said to his family had all of those work
all along you know that there
republicans should that be
would they get there on advertising in our politics
at alexey ok finding don't allow that if they don't but right now is a stance
that the way i read it
said the decision it it there cuz its best buy american corporation
it doesn't say okay you have to be fifty one percent american or seventy five
percent american
on terms that american what is it even mean to be an american corporation
anymore
you hear a corporation like i_b_m_
but your majority carol there could be a study prince that bite you
dot blot twelve percent of the company or fifty two percent a company earlier
maybe they don't own idea now became a lawyer tomorrow yeah they bite on the
stock market
he still had sent
so debuted in mind corporate america i know allot of people
think wait a minute for corporations control in our politics
no one's in favor of except apparently
right wing supreme court put in place for george bush uh... and others
yes
corporations can have different rules
the united states is no question about it
and then number two
look i don't
uh... i believe in freedom of speech so much than i think that there
arguments not crazy i i i think it has bulleted and i think the debatable point
and i want to be able to give corporations
some outlet
if they say hey you know what you want the issues that's
but you can run ants on specific
campaigns
often meaning you know again brown versus cult leader you could run ads
saying hey you know what
cabin trades a terrible idea
uh...
and you can't run ads
a certain period before an election three months six months of cetera
because we want the our politicians to be independent
we want them to represent us
not other interests
this decision destroys them
that if you can give voice to corporations without them
taking over the politicians okay then i met
let's have a reasonable discussion about how to do that
is extreme it's not reasonable as a minority points at not only did overturn
a-twenty you're rolling
but he'll return a hundred and seven years of precedent
now wait a minute what have i thought that the service
well we're against judicial activism
your tears other has been in place for over a hundred years
judicial activism
i'm sorry i got the number on by the way the screw that decision was nineteen oh
seven
so it's only been in place for ordered and three years
okay andy overturned that as well today