On Apr 24, 3:42 pm, Marshall Philippe Pétain
<meow.mix@FUCK_OFF_SPAMMER_meow.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Apr 2013 12:56:28 -0700 (PDT), mimus <
mimu...@gmail.com>
Senator Lindsey Graham just coined a splendid new phrase and meme,
"potential enemy combatants", which apparently applies to all of us,
especially if we're, like, poor, or dark-skinned, or have some other
flaw.
> >Most of the specifically anti-Citizens-United political effort is
> >focused on a Constitutional Amendment along the lines of (simplest
> >version and one I prefer) "Corporations are not persons."
>
> whoever thought of having corporations classed as people is an evil
> and corrupt beyond imagination, cunt.
It was a cute little example of early DC Theater, during the Gilded
Age IIRC, with a court reporter "accidentally" including the doctrine
as part of a ruling, and the Court then "reprimanding" that reporter
while not correcting that "error", which was then and thus introduced
into American jurisprudence, and has been the occasion for most
invocations of the Fourteenth Amendment (which extends all Federal
citizen rights to the State level) since, the Court having been
generally unwilling to broadly apply the Fourteenth to rights and
citizens in general, but always being willing to allow corporate
"citizens" all the "rights" they want, Federal and State.
> >No-one's talking about impeaching the Citizens United Five (the vote
> >was 5-4) for some reason-- probably because impeachment would have to
> >start in the Federal House of Representatives, which is controlled by
> >the more virulently plutocratic of the two parties, the Republicans:
> >they play the "black hats", staking out the extreme plutocratic and
> >anti-populist positions in DC Theater, while the Democrats play the
> >"white hats", vowing they'll "ne'er consent", until they finally all
> >"compromise" on what fuckery they intended all along, and then go off
> >to have some cold ones.
>
> and once again the us political soap goes to credits.
And then the commercials for the expensive stuff.
> >> >and wealthy
> >> >countries like Saudi Arabia long ago figured out it's stupid to
> >> >challenge America militarily when you can simply buy its leaders
> >> >("both" "parties", of course) and use its military for your own
> >> >purposes (see Gulf Wars I and II).
>
> >> this new land of oportunity really didn't work out to well for the new
> >> settelrs and thier decendents. they're more fucked than they were back
> >> in the old world.
>
> > Looks about the same in the Auld Sod, AFAICT.
>
> we don't have religious wingnuts trying to control education and govt
> polocy over here (the govts got problems with its own guys arguing
> about what to do about the current education system with regard to
> gcse's). here the state and the church have been seperate for a long
> time.
https://twitter.com/johnkt09/status/327090128164102145
--
The stronger the walls between
Church, State and Business,
the better for all of us.