10-25-2011, 01:44 PM
(10-25-2011, 05:09 AM)kandrathe Wrote: Does a corporation have the right to not be tried again for the same crime? Does a corporation have the right to a jury trial? Does a corporation have the right to invoke the 5th amendment? How about just compensation for property taken for public use? Do they have the right to protection from unusual search and seizure? How about the 14th amendment equal protection (i.e. not being singled out by law), and the right to due process?
I think what can be concluded that in the US (and in lesser extend also in other western nations) on paper you have democracies where every person has his or her votes that is worth the same for everyone but that in practice this has little meaning.
Stupidity is used by smarter people to get what they want via the voting box. In principle there would not be much difference if candidates would just use their money to directly pay voters, cash in hand, to vote for them instead of using their money for advertisements, spin doctors and other populistic methods.
Kandrathe, I guess you must agree with the buying of votes?
I personally would be against it but it seems a lot less hypocritical than the way things are now.