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New York Times - by Adam Liptak -WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday continued its abolition of limits on election spending, striking down a decades-old cap on …
Letter written by Lenin in 1921 Lenin G. Myasnikov indicated the press would be purchased and used for advantage by capitalists:
All over the world, wherever there are capitalists, freedom of the press means freedom to buy up newspapers, to buy writers, to bribe, buy and fake “public opinion” for the benefit of the bourgeoisie. This is a fact.
No one will ever be able to refute it.
And what about the US, home of the first amendment, what Lenin called bourgeois free speech because it was so easily overwhelmed by money and Jefferson saw as the bulwark against the ability of the rich to limit everyone else’s opportunity?
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down the aggregate campaign contribution limits, thereby opening the door to even more money in the political system. Justice Clarence Thomas wrote a separate opinion that agreed to strike the aggregate limits, but also called for an end to the entire campaign finance reform system..
Republican Party donor Shaun McCutcheon was joined by the Republican National Committee in this challenge which now means that a single donor will be able to contribute millions of hard dollars, overwhelming any possibility of free speech by people of lesser means no matter what there numbers may be.
Public Citizen president Robert Weissman said in a statement, “This is truly a decision establishing plutocrat rights. The Supreme Court today holds that the purported right of a few hundred super-rich individuals to spend outrageously large sums on campaign contributions outweighs the national interest in political equality and a government free of corruption.”
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) told reporters on Capitol Hill in response to the ruling. “Freedom of speech is 
being upheld,””Donors ought to have the freedom to give what they want to give.” Limits on giving “distorted the political process in ways that no one who voted for it ever believed in. Some of us understood what was going to happen. It’s pushing all this money outside the party structure into all these other various forms.
“I’m all for freedom. Congratulations.”
Read Robert Reich “The most brazen invitation to oligarchy in Supreme Court history”
Read comments at the NY Times.
Over at HorsesAss, the character “Puddy” posted this:
Yes Goldy, it’s so bad… yet when the facts are presented… it turns out the Supremes just leveled out the campaign contributions field…
This week Senate Democrats once again asked the IRS to crack down on conservative groups including Americans for Prosperity, funded by the billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch. Democrats want to silence the opposition.
So how big of a threat are the Koch Brothers?
Over the past twenty five years, from 1989 to 2014, Koch Industries has donated $18,083,948 in political contributions to Republicans. While that seems like a large sum, it only ranks them as number 59 on the list of top all-time political donors – behind 18 different unions.
Yes that’s right. If DMMOCRETINS could win on their ideas alone why do they need to ask the IRS (like the IRS can be trusted anyway) to stifle their political opposition? And we see #1 ActBlue gave 99% to DUMMOCRETINS.