Daily Topics – Thursday January 21st 2010
By Thom
Quote: The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.
-- Aristotle
Hour One - With the Supreme Court ruling on the Citizens United case, did the gates of hell just get opened up? plus....Banksters & healthcare
Guest: Shannyn Moore, The Shannyn Moore Show on KUDO 1080AM www.kudo1080.com
Hour Two - With the Supreme Court ruling on the Citizens United case,did the gates of hell just get opened up? David Cobb, DemocracyUnlimited of Humboldt County and 2004 Green Party PresidentialCandidate www.duhc.org
Hour Three - Amy Goodman (just back from Haiti) www.democracynow.org
What is going on in Haiti
Comments
#2
Now we see the evil done by the re-election of W. in 2004 (thanks Ohio), allowing him to sway the balance of the Supreme Court, appointing young pro-corporate gangsters (for life). The BIGGEST threat to giving "speech" rights to corporations is even bigger than swaying elections. Rather, it's in the THREAT of swaying elections. Major companies now have a huge bat with which to threaten any member of congress who resists voting for a pro-corporate bill. "We'll make sure you don't make the primaries in the next election." Politicians being what they are (masters of rationalizing), expect the sound of screeching brakes on most progressive legislation, especially the most important, campaign finance reform proposals. What to do? Start the drumbeat: We need a Constitutional amendment which simply declares that the people's rights are reserved to the people and not to commerce-based organizations.
#3
@Frederick Smith
Don't blame Ohio - we elected Kerry. Blame Diebold.
#4
@Meremark - So it's OK to patronize the Phone companies and Paypal, while we're allegedly boycotting all commercial corporations?
Maybe you're throwing the baby out with the bathwater?
#5
@Blue Mark
I stand corrected! Diebold also being an argument for campaign reform, and another phrase to add to that Constitutional amendment--all votes cast shall be verifiable by physical copy upon request of the voter.
#6
"Yes, the Heartland League of Fundamental Churches supports the good and holy name of Sara Palin for President in 2012, and we can only pray that rumor about Mr. Obama being born illegitimately, is unfounded..."
"John Edwards for the Senate--Let's give him a break." - Miller Beer
"Honda Motors believes the best man for Congress in 2010 is Rush Limbaugh, a fearless and honorable man respected throughout Japan and America."
"Only Joe Lieberman understands the critical need for free trade in oil in times like these. He is respected as one of the great Americans at CNPC (China National Petroleum Corporation)."
(Why not foreign corporations? If they're people, don't they all have equal rights? The reality boggles the mind.)
#7
Big P.S.: What's the difference nowadays between a domestic corporation and an international corporation? I wonder it the Justices gave any thought to the implications of that....
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THIS Travesty of Justice is the ULTIMATE Supreme Court totalitarian OVER-REACH.
This, then, the sick-joke joey that broke the kangaroo Court"s pouch. Spilling its guts out displaying INjustice. Humankind around the planet sees that the past thirty years of demented revenge by the judicial branch, the generation of mutants without civil mercy, has ended in hung Judges: Solomoncide.
The Court has crossed the Rubicon of its own damn flowing dumbness, gone over inside The Five Rightwingers' mental hell of their own making, beyond saving, beyond 12-step recovery, beyond redemption -- mentally unfit to handle trials.
America the Beautiful expels them, burns the bridge they marched off of in lockstep. Bye-bye, wave them bye-bye.
And now we have Constitutional work to do; now to establish Justice -- rebuild it and rededicate ourselves. Let's get busy.
We know the difference between work and jobs. We the People must be about doing our work. No more begging, sucking-up for 'jobs.'
A job is the pigeonhole cubicle in which corporations feed pellets to slave prisoners.
A job is a cog of machine politics that fabricates fascist ruin, in which the Supreme Jokers' injustice blindly ignores the tyranny torturing Mother Nature.
Work is our personal craft, our own applied talents and skills, our individual trade and commerce. We can work, we have labor. Shove jobs off ... and up.
As antisocial corporations hold human health hostage, then BOYCOTT them. Bankrupt them. End all our transactions in corporation commerce.
Work here on Earth among ourselves Earthlings.
THOM, THOM, THOM: Most of all THIS means YOU.
The vibrant thrill while hearing your teaching is SHATTERED the instant you say "now a commercial." Your ten-minute talks are totally trashed in the next 60-seconds of rich-paid betrayal propaganda. THOM, quit that job.
Work with us: We the People. Walk the talk and go on the air with people's broadcasting power. Announce people-paid politics, speak sing and muse through a people-paid microphone. Shun and slander ALL corporate sponsors -- BOYCOTT the inhuman bastards or else yours is vanity's voice chained in their prison, calling human spirits to suicide shoals, uh, genicide, er, humanicide. Anyway ... extinction, further along the corrupting and torturing 'capitalism road.'
To be sure there looms daunting complication and difficulty -- but NO danger -- to detach The Thom Hartmann Program from commercial-sponsored distribution and then institute people (anonymous)-sponsored broadcasting. Difficult, yet possible. And, to be sure, plausible, more in these times than ever previous -- I'm pointing at "dial a number to donate ten bucks through phone billing," and the internet, and 'PayPal,' and more mechanisms already in place, intact.
Going on as you are is going nowhere: More INjust 'rulings' such as today's. Getting popular support by people-money, on purpose, (NOT 'public monies' as mandatory taxes to a 'non-profit' no-gain institution), is the one and only way, THOM, to a freedom of speech with which you can call-out the corrupt Supreme Kangaroos and, in that, configure a broadcast wherewithal of people-power politics movement.
Recall Ralph Waldo Emerson:
There are always only two (political) parties: the party of the Past and the party of the Future -- the Establishment and the Movement.
THOM: Every commercial interrupting your airtime undoes your value of truth, veritas -- vouch annulled by corporate-speak politics. ... that 'tag', you're it.
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