quotek wrote:eh? oh (i just read the news) well you got an airport in the usa
innit?
yeah, thunderf00ts video series about creationists
contaions a warning about how usa could become a fundamentalist nutter nation if they arent
careful, with nuts like that controlling foreign policy and weapons
you seen his videos?
i haven't seen the vids k but listen to this. someone is trying to form another official basketball
league in the U.S. it's being advertised as an all white basketball league. no blacks need apply. i
can't imagine it's going to go very far but it does exemplify the issue you bring up and the toilet i'm
sitting in the midst of here in the states.
and now this. the supreme court made a decision today that corporations can spend as much
money as they want on political campaigns and lobbying for special interest legislation. the
expression in the u.s. after this decision is "democracy...it was fun while it lasted."
the supreme court, weighted with conservatives since bush appointed two more during his
disaster in office, said they voted against limiting lobbying and campaign contributions to defend
freedom of speech. now consider that when you work in a corporation (i worked for the investment
banking firm Lehman Brothers until they drove off the cliff) as a worker you are not allowed to
speak in the workplace about politics. now i understand the reasoning behind that but it could also
be considered a freedom of speech infringement. consider that a corporation is not a "person"
whose right to freedom of speech is guaranteed under the Constitution. then consider that the
heads of a corporation can decide where they put the corporation's money politically in spite of the
political views of its employees thereby steering employee moral and financial investment into a
political policy they would not choose if offered the choice.
imagine that wall street now has the ability to buy political support more and more each year. i've
always been against corporate lobbying and now the floodgates are open. in the 1980s and
Reagan's trickle down economics i predicted the economic collapse we saw last year. at first i
thought it would come sooner but as time went on i thought it might not happen in my lifetime. it fell
somewhere in between. Obama is going to try to put a leash on this supreme court ruling. i hope
he can. if not we will see the manifestation in real life of the movie "Rollerball" (I've only seen the
original Rollerball). imagine a public, most of whom have no great interest or time to look into
politics, being bombarded with "vote for this guy" ads and thereby voting by influence rather than
thoughtfulness. if the supreme court ruling is not reigned in the u.s. will no longer be a democracy.
it will be a corporate theocracy. on the bright side, Rome fell and the world kept spinning.