The decision to codify corporate personhood that took place on January 21st was the final nail in the coffin of representative democracy. While this ruling was an audacious move, it should not have come as a surprise to anyone. All the incremental changes to our Constitution and Bill of Rights that were enacted under the Bush administration including the 1,200+ signing statements (all of these changes have remained intact under Obama) were moves on a chessboard leading up to this abomination. The placement of John Roberts as Chief Justice assured the outcome. While voices of knowledgeable activists claimed during confirmation hearings that Roberts was outright lying to obfuscate his neoconservative far-right leanings, Democratic members of the Senate chose to ignore the evidence and refused to filibuster. Then they voted to confirm. Thanks for nothing.

Corporations are now defined as human beings in terms of being allocated “free speech” rights, as in being allowed to use their financial resources to buy our government. Actually, they have been doing this all along, but now it is the stated law of the land. All the little tweaks that our representatives have been talking about enacting to supposedly minimize the dangers inherent in this ruling will do nothing. Think about it—they enact a law such as not allowing corporations with foreign investors to give money to back particular candidates. The corporation sues. It gets appealed all the way to the Supreme Court. How do you think the justices are going to rule????? Because of the Congress and the Supreme Court justices we have presently, I don’t think there is any action that could stem the dangers we now face, including a Constitutional Amendment. Do you see this Congress, with the crazy-ass Republicans and the mealymouthed corrupt Democrats taking action instead of giving us lip-service. Do you see the justices reversing their decision? We are screwed—get used to it. I could write ten pages and never explain the trouble we are in as well as it has been said by Keith Olbermann…

Olbermann: U.S. government for sale (In a Special Comment, Countdown’s Keith Olbermann envisions a future United States in which today’s Supreme Court ruling permitting unbridled corporate campaign spending purchase all the power greed can afford.) (transcript and video)

And from www.democracynow.org : In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court rules corporations can spend unlimited amounts of money to elect and defeat candidates. One lawmaker describes it as the worst Supreme Court decision since the Dred Scott case justifying slavery. We speak with constitutional law professor, Jamin Raskin. (includes rush transcript) In Landmark Campaign Finance Ruling, Supreme Court Removes Limits on Corporate Campaign Spending

With the death of our representative democracy, a fascist state takes its place. As defined by Benito Mussolini, “Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.” We have already seen perpetual war for perpetual profit and actions to create an elite ruling class with their poor servant class (us), but now the power can be so overtly concentrated that I don’t know what we will be able to do to stop it. As Olbermann said, “A revolution against the corporations? The corporations that make the guns and the bullets?” Over the years of the Bush Crime Family’s decimation of the Constitution, I and many others warned of what was to come. The response was a big sigh, a nice way to say they thought we were crazy. Not so crazy after all. It’s the Corporate State, Stupid

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For a related article please check out The Corporate Takeover of America Is Now Complete by Ron Stouffer.

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