You, me, Ted Olson and the pandora’s box of corporate campaign contributions, who cares? You should here’s why…

With the Healthcare debate and the President’s address to the Nation on September 9th, many if not all Americans missed the real breaking news of the day thanks to your local and national broadcast news organizations. So what really happened? Well nothing yet, but what is going to happen will change democracy forever. Based on the oral arguments and the questions posed by the Justices on the United States Supreme Court one hundred and four years of legal precedent is about to go out the window and our elections are never going to be the same again. The case is Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, No. 08-205, seemingly a simple case on its face for a “conservative court”  led by a man who must have said Stare decisis one hundred times during his confirmation hearing(Roberts).  For all appearences it seems that Justce Roberts and his cohorts have taken the position stare decisis be damned, we are going to toss out over a century’s worth of legal precedents, and allow corporations to be deemed as persons for the purposes of free speech, and having already stated money equals speech, we are about to see unlimited corporate campaign contributions during our elections. This is an absolute subversion of democracy and will in the opinion of many legal experts be the end of free and fair elections in America…  “What you talking bout Willis? ”  Overreaction, you be the judge.

Lets set the scene; Its October of 2016 and the election cycle is heating up,  the two Nominees Bill Gates of the newly renamed Democratic Party sponsored by Micro-soft and Some Oil Company CEO from Texas, Republican sponsored by Exxon, (did I mention hes still the CEO of  Exxon Mobile). The two are going head to head on the television with ads running not every few breaks but on every channel all the time like infomercials.  Gates’s campaign is funded by Microsoft, so far he has spent $2 billion dollars on advertising alone, he is still losing ground to Exxon’s CEO who is running on a pro-oil platform paid for by Exxon Mobile, the Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia, Aramco (Saudi National OIL Company) and many other oil producers. The promises are flying, free software for all, versus gasoline for a dollar if you vote for Dick…  Would this be really different from what we have now? No it’s not.  The real difference will come in the legislative process. As bad as things are now with campaign donations, imagine if a corporation could skip the lobbying process all together and just flat out hand $20,000,000 to the head of the committee to write a bill giving them the exclusive contract to supply the military with gasoline, or the exclusive right to supply Medicare supplies, think it can’t happen, you’re wrong it will happen its the natural result of this course of events.

Pandora’s box has been opened and we are about to see what it contains thanks to the Supreme Court hearing the case;  Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, No. 08-205.  Imagine, what a corporation could do if it had free rein to throw cash around in an unlimited manner? Forget about beating an incumbent in an election without corporate sponsorship, not just donations, true sponsorship, that will be the end of us, stare decisis my ass.

What if idiots didn’t run the world?