[wordup] Free Speech for People

[Adam Shand]

As always the whole world has to care because what happens in America sets the stage for what will happen everywhere else.

The YouTube video is an easy watch but propaganda as much as anything.  Still it is an important issue and worth learning about.

Adam.

Source: http://freespeechforpeople.org/
More: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dx81TeELcik

"American citizens have repeatedly amended the Constitution to defend democracy when the Supreme Court acts in collusion with democracy's enemies, whether they are slavemasters, states imposing poll taxes on voters, or the opponents of woman suffrage. Today, the Court has enthroned corporations, permitting them not only all kinds of special economic rights but now, amazingly, moving to grant them the same political rights as the people. This is a moment of high danger for democracy so we must act quickly to spell out in the Constitution what the people have always understood: that corporations do not enjoy the political and free speech rights that belong to the people of the United States."

- Professor Jamie Raskin, constitutional law expert at American University's Washington College of Law and Maryland state senator