10-23-2011, 08:16 AM
Anyone who isn't an individual should be restricted in my opinion, media and unions included. I don't think the founders intended for the 1st Amendment to apply to anyone else but individuals. I'm all for free speech, it is an essential part of having a democracy in the first place, but there ARE limitations on it. Obviously, you cannot make terrorist threats, nor can you scream FIRE! in a crowded theater. This situation is another of those where the line must be drawn, in my view, because it basically allows money to become a form of free speech. Which undermines the very democracy freedom of speech seeks to achieve and/or protect. Those with greater wealth now speak much louder than we do. It really kind of makes the whole voting process in vain, since politicians are now simply bought. 1 person, 1 vote. Period.
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"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (addressing the bourgeois)
"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (addressing the bourgeois)