Posted on 04/19/2012 2:11:32 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Pelosi: Amend the First Amendment By Terence P. Jeffrey April 19, 2012
(CNSNews.com) - House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on Thursday endorsed a movement announced by other congressional Democrats on Wednesday to ratify an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would allow Congress to regulate political speech when it is engaged in by corporations as opposed to individuals.
The First Amendment says in part: "Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press..."
Television networks, newspapers, publishing houses, movie studios and think tanks, as well as political action committees, are usually organized as, or elements of, corporations.
Pelosi said the Democrats' effort to amend the Constitution is part of a three-pronged strategy that also includes promoting the DISCLOSE Act, which would increase disclosure requirements for organizations running political ads, and “reducing the roll of money in campaigns” (which some Democrats have said can be done through taxpayer funding of campaigns).
The constitutional amendment the Democrats seek would reverse the Supreme Court’s 2009 decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. In that decision the court said that the First Amendment protects a right of free speech for corporations as well as for individuals, and that corporations (including those that produce newspapers, films and books) have a right to speak about politicians and their records just as individuals do.
“We have a clear agenda in this regard: Disclose, reform the system reducing the roll of money in campaigns, and amend the Constitution to rid it of this ability for special interests to use secret, unlimited, huge amounts of money flowing to campaigns,” Pelosi said at her Thursday press briefing.
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No, the communists are dead serious.
Isn’t Al Sharpton’s National Action Network a (nonprofit) corporation?
Therefore.....bttt
I would guess that Excellence In Broadcasting (Rush's program) is a corporation!
They don’t terrify me.... they ENRAGE me!
Corporations are incapable of speaking. They hire people who speak for them. So there is no way to restrict corporate speech, because it doesn’t exist.
The founding fathers didn't create it to protect porn.
Nanzi Pelozi flashes her Swastika for her adoring crowds again.
Thank god it takes 2/3 of votes from Congress and 3/4 of the states to amend the Constitution..
The Founders of the US foresaw assholes like Pelosi. That’s one of the reasons why, although they couldn’t predict the future, they included a provision to amend the Constitution while making it difficult to amend it at the same time.
Such decisions should not be made lightly or at the whim of current fads, or by leftist air-heads.
Anyone who works on a 1099 basis is a corporation.
OK Nan. But if you REALLY want to go down that road, don’t you think you ought to repeal the 2nd Amendment first?
Anyone who works on a 1099 basis is a corporation.
Not exactly. Anyone who works on a "1099" basis is a "sole proprietor."
See Legalzoom.com.
8^)
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another recipient of a 1099 is an independent contractor. That independent contractor may be a corporation ( a legal person) or it may be an individual. Corporations are not required to report 1099 income separate from sales
Can anyone in Washington find the OFF button on Pelosi?
Yeah...but I don't think anyone really wants to go "there"...pretty disgusting ;)
Will you folks in San FRancisco please put us out of our misery?
Madam Pelousy needs to be retired in 2012!
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Pelosi is living proof that:
a) If you are a psychotic, you can rise to the top of the Democratic Party.
b) that Michael Savage is right, Liberalism is a mental disease.
c) Pelosi is not taking her meds.
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