Monday, January 25, 2010

The Implications of Money=Speech

Nowhere anywhere in reasonable discourse or common sense can money be considered equal to speech. There are four specific freedoms enumerated clearly in the First Amendment. They are:
1.Freedom of Speech
2.Freedom of the Press
3.Freedom of Religion, and
4.Freedom of Assembly.
None of these entities can in any way be reasonably seen as indicating money or commerce. An although the freedom of each of the four is clearly stated to be absolutely protected from any law passed by Congress alone, the existence of any force, such as money or commerce, which clearly favors or limits any of these four freedoms, that is not limited by an act of Congress from influencing or affecting all or none of these four in effect functions and affects people as a law inhibiting or enhancing them. But the main point is it is sheer and utter sophistry to call money speech., which everyone clearly knows it’s not. The decision of the one-person majority of the Supreme Court to uphold a right clearly in violation of the intent of the First Amendment on grounds of an equivalence which clearly have no basis in the letter of the First Amendment is not only itself a gross violation of the U.S. Constitution but exhibits a flagrant abuse of judicial power and clearly warrants the removal of each of these 5 justices. Furthermore, if this ridiculous equation of money and speech were to be upheld asa legal precedent, any law prohibiting the sale of illegal drugs, sex or any other contraband or form of bribery would automatically be unconstitutional. As well, the collection of taxes by the U.S. Government as well as the right of the Department of the Treasury to do anything other than make legal tender available to free citizens as the citizens wish would both be in complete violation of the Constitution. Short of this, this Supreme Court decision is inconsistent in its interpretation with all earlier precedent and in violation of the Constitution itself.