SUPREME COURT VOTES TO END DEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS

I awakened to discover I am living in a nation under enemy occupation

Richard Brennerman - I awakened this morning to discover I am living in nation under enemy occupation. It is an alien, inhuman, sovereign power that controls our military, and, increasingly, our schools, prisons, and many of the institutions of governance.

That alien power is the corporation, freshly empowered by today's Supreme Court's decision to remove any spending limits on their ability to influence elections. . .

Remember that corporate personhood began as a legal fiction, inserted by a clerk Bancroft Davis [a former railroad president] in the court's 1887 decision in County of Santa Clara v. Southern Pacific Railroad. . .

Did democracy in America die today?

Gary Ruskin, Green Change - The U.S. Supreme Court's decision today in Citizens United may bring an end to democracy in America. It is effectively a corporate coup d'etat.

By striking down a 103 year-old law that prohibits corporate contributions in federal elections, the court is allowing giant corporations and their massive stores of wealth to purchase elections at all levels of government. This decision will devastate the integrity and moral legitimacy of our government and our elected officials. It will bring more corruption than our nation has known in more than a century. . .

Starting today, large corporations will rule our country. Their money will dominate our elections and our elected officials, and will purchase more influence than we can imagine. Our nation's giant corporations have used our own Constitution against us to grab power for themselves. We should have no pretence that it is any other way.

Today's decision marks the beginnings of very dark times for our nation. It is hard to see how we will emerge from them. Obviously, we must work for constitutional amendments to remove corporate money from politics, and more broadly, to end corporate personhood. These will be exceedingly hard to win. But try we must. And it is only the beginning of what we must do.