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Citizens United....
Jan. 21st, 2011 03:10 pmMoveOn.org is currently petitioning state legislatures around the country in support of a new amendment to the Constitution specifying that corporations are not individuals. This may be a long shot, but the damage done to our current system by the Supreme Court's decision of January last must be remedied. By declaring that corporations are individuals with rights of free speech, the Supreme Court furthered the placing of our elected officials even deeper into the deep pockets of big business. The result will be fascism on a new scale. It has a ready helped to reshape the House and likely it is only a matter of time before the Senate follows suit.
I urge each of you reading this who're American citizens to sign the MoveOn petition & to do what I did earlier today; write directly to your own state senator and assembly person. Below is a snippet from my e-mail, to Wes Chesbro, my state assemblyman.
"The Citizens United decision will devastate our current political system, granting undue political influence to corporations. Please, do what you can as a legislator to protect our rights, so that Lincoln's words, "...a government of the people, by the people shall not perish from the earth," are not just beautiful words from a stirring speech, but our reality as Americans. As American citizens and, as voters, we need representatives to respond to the needs of their constituents, not Cargill, to mothers and fathers and not Monsanto, to the general electorate, not General Electric. If the Citizens United decision continues to stand unchecked and unchallenged, it will not be long before the will of Coca-Cola and Koch Industries bears more weight in Washington, than the will of the people of California, Kentucky and the Carolinas."
I urge each of you reading this who're American citizens to sign the MoveOn petition & to do what I did earlier today; write directly to your own state senator and assembly person. Below is a snippet from my e-mail, to Wes Chesbro, my state assemblyman.
"The Citizens United decision will devastate our current political system, granting undue political influence to corporations. Please, do what you can as a legislator to protect our rights, so that Lincoln's words, "...a government of the people, by the people shall not perish from the earth," are not just beautiful words from a stirring speech, but our reality as Americans. As American citizens and, as voters, we need representatives to respond to the needs of their constituents, not Cargill, to mothers and fathers and not Monsanto, to the general electorate, not General Electric. If the Citizens United decision continues to stand unchecked and unchallenged, it will not be long before the will of Coca-Cola and Koch Industries bears more weight in Washington, than the will of the people of California, Kentucky and the Carolinas."
