How many people here think Citizens United was a legal reaffirmation of Corporate personhood espoused by the 14th Amendment?

SPC Erich Guenther — Fri, 21 Oct 2016 16:33:14 -0400

Response by Sgt Wayne Wood made Oct 21 at 2016 4:41 PM

Sgt Wayne Wood — Fri, 21 Oct 2016 16:41:46 -0400

Was there ever a doubt? Corporate personhood is one legal fiction that can be lived with.

Response by MSgt Michael Bischoff made Oct 21 at 2016 4:48 PM

MSgt Michael Bischoff — Fri, 21 Oct 2016 16:48:38 -0400

You forgot to ask the question, what are republicans afraid of?? How can a businesses be people?

Response by SSG Michael Hartsfield made Oct 21 at 2016 4:49 PM

SSG Michael Hartsfield — Fri, 21 Oct 2016 16:49:27 -0400

One, all of the selections you have are loaded and have an obvious slant. Nevertheless to answer your question, NO! Citizens United is not a legal affirmation because money is not free speech. Ask the poor how effective their voices are vs the affluent. Also, corporations are NOT a representative sample as they do not represent the entirety of America nor do they have the average America citizen's well being as a priority.

Response by Sgt Aaron Kennedy, MS made Oct 21 at 2016 6:09 PM

Sgt Aaron Kennedy, MS — Fri, 21 Oct 2016 18:09:00 -0400

Citizens United came down the way it did, because it had to come down the way it did.

It started with a Free Speech issue. Either Free Speech is allowed in all its forms, or it's not. Saying Hillary the Movie was not allowed merely because it was political in nature is the exact reason we have the 1st Amendment. The Government is not to stop Free Speech from being exercised. Either from an Individual, or Collectively.

All Rights are individual in nature. Some Rights require a collective power to be fully brought to bear. Assembly is one such example, the militia is another. The press is a third. Corporations are no different.

The fact that money is involved is quite frankly irrelevant. Money is merely the method that free speech is being executed. If I dedicated all of my wordly posessions to shouting that a candidate was unfit for office, that is free speech. If I got together with others to do the same, it would still be free speech. If we form a corporation.. how is that not free speech?