This is HUGE! Finally, a challenge to the 'personhood' of corporations in the Supreme Court!!!

On August 1st Democracy Unlimited filed a brief in the U.S. Supreme Court challenging “corporate personhood,” the illegitimate and undemocratic legal doctrine which allows courts to overturn democratically elected laws that attempt to control corporate harm and abuse...

“The notion that corporations have the same speech rights as people under our Bill of Rights is contrary to the words, history, spirit and intent of our Constitution,” said Clements. “The organizations that joined to bring these arguments to the Court have worked with others for many years to empower democratic self-government. They remind us that corporations do not vote, speak, or act as people do, but are products of government policy to achieve economic and charitable ends. As such, corporations need not be allowed to influence our elections if Congress and State governments judge that such influence is detrimental to democracy.”

The Supreme Court is considering overturning federal campaign regulations for corporations, originally enacted in 1907, and may soon overrule previous Supreme Court decisions that have upheld the Constitutionality of legislative restrictions on corporate money in politics...

The brief filed by Democracy Unlimited argues that corporations are legal entities created by state or federal law for economic, charitable or other purposes, and were never intended to be included within the Constitution’s Bill of Rights...

More details and a long discussion thread at Reddit.

The Supreme Court will be hearing the case in September. Expect to hear more about this then, but you can get a head start now.

Required – and Urgent – Reading for All True Patriots

"We have a mindset, which is that democracy is the resilient rule. Historically it is fragile exception. Democracies take nurturing. They're easy to pull down. The Founders understood that. It's a very dangerous time...

"People really don't understand what fascism looks like. They think it looks kind of like goose-stepping military and barbed wire everywhere. It doesn't look like that. I give examples of closed societies in the book, and after a society is closed, there will often still be a judiciary. There will be journalism. There will be radio. There will even be television. There will be universities and students. Many aspects of the institutions of civil society continue. What happens, though, is everybody knows how far you can go before you lose your job, or how far you can go before getting arrested."

– from an interview with Naomi Wolf on BuzzFlash.com, regarding her new book The End of America: A Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot


When the U.S. Congress starts censuring organizations like MoveOn for exercising free speech as they just did, when cops are tasering people for exercising free speech, when it becomes "normal" for the government to spy on its citizens, when habeas corpus is repealed and when the president can decided someone no longer has civil rights and can disappear and torture them at will... then democracy is not only in danger, it is already sliding headlong down a slippery slope into a fascist abyss, and the people had better wake up and lose their sheeple-like complacency, and fast.

This interview with Naomi Wolf, as well as her new book, should be required reading for all Americans!