If the government thinks they can punish and regulate, regulate and punish making corporations their whipping boy in order to pander to voters, they should know that they will have to battle the opponents they have created when it comes time to get re-elected.

The sole purpose of the 1st Amendment’s free speech clause is to prevent Congress from passing laws that penalize or imprison people who engage in poltical speech. This law clearly violated the 1st Amendment.

The ability to criticize politicians in a public forum is absolutely vital to having a successful democracy. This decision will strengthen democracy, not weaken it.

The Campaign Finance law that was in effect did 2 things: 1) it protected incumbents from critization and 2) it prevents people of limited means from engaging in the political process by restricting them from pooling their resources to promote a common cause.

Corporate Personhood is the doctrine that a corporation can claim to be a person, and therefore entitled to basic human rights – also described as political and civil rights – and have courts overturn laws.

As this decision clearly demonstrates, corporate personhood is not an inconsequential legal technicality. Consider this – the Supreme Court ruled that a corporation was a “legal person” with 14th Amendment protections before the Court granted full personhood to African Americans, immigrants, Native Americans, and women.

Check these folks out: http://www.MoveToAmend.org.

They’re calling for a Constitutional Amendment that will:

* Firmly establish that money is not speech, and that human beings, not corporations, are persons entitled to constitutional rights.
* Guarantee the right to vote and to participate, and to have our votes and participation count.
* Protect local communities, their economies, and democracies against illegitimate “preemption” actions by global, national, and state governments.

You can sign on to the Motion too.