Posted on 04/21/2012 7:07:38 AM PDT by SumProVita
"...my friend and colleague Eugene Volokh makes much the same point in his usual erudite way:
So just as Congress could therefore ban the speech of nonmedia business corporations, it could ban publications by corporate-run newspapers and magazines — which I think includes nearly all such newspapers and magazines in the country (and for good reason, since organizing a major publications as a partnership or sole proprietorship would make it much harder for it to get investors and to operate). Nor does this proposal leave room for the possibility, in my view dubious, that the Free Press Clause would protect newspapers organized by corporations but not other corporations that want to use mass communications technology. Section 3 makes clear that the preservation of the “freedom of the press” applies only to “the people,” and section 2 expressly provides that corporations aren’t protected as “the people.”
Congress could also ban the speech and religious practice of most churches, which are generally organized as corporation. It could ban the speech of nonprofit organizations that are organized as corporations."
(Excerpt) Read more at professorbainbridge.com ...
The idea is that "the people" shouldn't have to worry about an old dusty constitution and can have anything they want.
What is so amazing is that this is all blatantly OBVIOUS...and the general public seems unaware.
Sheeeeeesh....
Nancy Pelousy ping. Thanks SumProVita.
Only if THEY control the state.
It is about power.
They wish to deny free speech to people who run companies because they do not want free and open debate concerning the legislation they propose that would force these corporations to do their bidding.
Free and open debate exposes the costly non-sense that is all of this environmental controls that the left continues to impose in violation of the law and common sense.
And let’s not forget churches. They would REALLY like to control speech connected with authentic Christians (many of which are generally organized as corporations).
“The public” remains in rectal defilade most of the time.
The Sunday before that he was raising funds for Handgun Control Inc.
The commies have been highly influential in mainstream religion for decades.
These are the issues and opportunities that the spineless GOP refuses to seize and demagogue with the efficiency and effectiveness that the DNC and media did with the SS reform (Robbing S from old people), The contraceptive mandate (War on women), the Bush tax cuts (Tax cuts for the rich) etc.
This is another golden opportunity to show the tyranny and control inherent in the socialist ideology of democrat control.
The GOP will punt. They’ll make a few shallow comments and then reach across the isle and pet someone.
“For the enemies of religion cannot leave it alone. They laboriously attempt to smash religion. They cannot smash religion; but they do smash everything else.” ...GK Chesterton
This for all practical purposes would nationalize the media. Also, as noted, it would censor churches because most churches are big bad corporations. So the right of free speech is atomized - you as an individual may privately speak but people joined together in an organization or corporation have no freedom of speech. But the people are supposed to have the right to “peaceably assemble” and speak. Here our communists want to make it so only you as an isolated individual can speak and you can speak only in ways that would be ineffective. Four more years of Obama - no more First Amendment.
The Methodist Church took part in the founding of handgun Control Inc.
Much earlier I can recall sitting in Sunday School with literature praising leaders of the Chinese Revolution.
First thing that comes to mind is The Heritage Foundation.
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The Heritage Foundation is the nation’s most broadly supported public policy research institute, with nearly 700,000 individual, foundation and corporate donors. Heritage, founded in February 1973, has a staff of 255 and an annual expense budget of $75.3 million.
Our mission is to formulate and promote conservative public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national defense.
“Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened.” ...Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Even among conservatives.
Yes, the repercussions of such an amendment are compelling.
By the way, I love this from your home page:
“How do you tell a communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin.
And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin.”
Ronald Reagan
Unfortunately, you are correct...but this is not nearly to the extent that you find among liberals.
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