Free Speech Gagged (SCOTUS Treason, Part 1)

When the U.S. Supreme Court took it upon themselves to defy both existing law and their own often-stated precedents to christen George W. Bush president late in 2000, I believed I would never live to see the day when our highest court could act more corruptly.

I was wrong.

If you've ever had a waking thought about the operation of our modern U.S. Congress, you already know that it is owned and operated by big money. And that counts the majority of Democrats as well as Republicans. But today, the shameful majority on the high court joined the craven ranks of these corporate Congressional tools. They are vile. They are anti-American. They are terrorists in robes instead of turbans. And most of all, they are wrong. Be very afraid.

So now, corporations and other special interests are free to spend as much money as they like whenever they want to elect their servile slime to protect their interests. Of course, in keeping with the tenor of the times, they delivered the blow with the maximum dose of hypocrisy. Those supporting this bloodless coup wrapped their defense in a false fabric of free speech. In fact, this represents exactly the opposite. The airwaves and dwindling supply of print pages will now be sold to the highest bidders. The voices of the less well funded...and of mere citizens...will drown in a flood of cash designed to decapitate democracy.

I know this sounds hyperbolic. Understand that this is a reasoned opinion. We are entering Stalin-era territory here. Orwell was less than 30 years off. We will see rebirth of the term 'oligarchy', and see first legs given to the common discussion of 'corporatocracy'. When you watch failed bankers walk away from their ruins with millions in taxpayer-funded bonuses...while your neighbors lose their jobs...it is logical to believe that this simply can not be as unfair as it seems. Certainly some complexity must be at work that makes this farce make sense.

You would be wrong.

With this ruling, the Supreme Court speaks for its corporate masters in a new and fully unambiguous voice: "We never cared what you wanted. But now, we no longer have to pretend that we do."