Take a look at this article in The New Yorker about the Supreme Court decision to open the floodgates so corporate wealth can dominate U.S. elections:
http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2011/04/11/110411taco_talk_toobin
In the decision, Justice Kennedy and the majority did just what Kennedy said he did not want to do, took the right to speak from some people and gave it to others, depriving the disadvantaged of a fundamental right in a participatory democracy.
They took the right to speak from the poor and the middle class and handed it to rich corporations who do not have the best interests of the country at heart.
There are no checks and balances here. Is this the America our ancestors fought for? I don't think so.
If you want to get involved, check out this website:
http://unitedrepublic.org/?akid=116.80736.S1FeYK
-- Roger
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