RESPONSE:

Under this activist, conservative Supreme Court, Citibank, Citgo, and Toyota have the same rights as you do!   Can you believe that?

FOLLOW-UP:

Businesses SHOULD NOT have the same rights as citizens.  The likely result of this decision is the complete sale of our Government (even more than it is now) to Corporations, Special Interest Groups, and Lobbyists.

The terrible Dread Scott decision, in 1857, said that people were property. This Citizens United decision says that property are people.

These corporations and special interest groups are not human beings, they can be owned by foreign governments, don’t get sick, and don’t die.

Corporations are artificial creations by government.  They operate by the rules that ‘We The People’ decide, not the other way around.

The American people should be up in arms over this decision.

UNCOVERS:

People over company.  We are a Government of the people.  The concept of ‘Activist court decision’ and ’Conservative’ should be emphasized.

SIDE POINTS:

• http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/22/us/politics/22scotus.html
• No. 08-205, overruled two precedents:Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce, a 1990 decision that upheld restrictions on corporate spending to support or oppose political candidates, and McConnell v. Federal Election Commission, a 2003 decision that upheld the part of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 that restricted campaign spending by corporations and unions.