What is Occupy Wallstreet?

[kandrathe]

ROFL. Impossible, since communism and totalitarianism cannot fundamentally co-exist.

Yeah, crazy. It could never happen.

So then... Stalin was chosen by the CC as the successor to Lenin. Why is it that everywhere communism is attempted eventually results in mass executions and deprivation? I'm just having a little trouble grasping how you can believe that something is great in theory, but then so disastrous in execution. So, yeah, let's just not look at all those places where it's been attempted.

But by equating money to free speech, is essentially giving such individuals or parties TWO votes.

Nope. What the SCOTUS ruled on was speech, and only speech. The ruling was, "A provision of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act prohibiting unions, corporations and not-for-profit organizations from broadcasting electioneering communications within 60 days of a general election or 30 days of a primary election violates the free speech clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution."

Should Joe McGinniss be allowed to write, and make money from a book about Sarah Palin? Should Penguin be allowed to sell it, and make money from it? Or, is it some fuzzy and quasi-legalistic wrangling since she hadn't quite declared if she was going to run or not. Do political opponents just need to make sure they get their speech in before the muzzling window drops? What he did was to exercise his freedom of speech, and specifically exactly the same thing that Citizen's United did, only they did it as a movie about Hillary Clinton. Let's say a political movie is a hit, and when the 30/60 day window arrives then all the theaters must pull it. Or, all the book stores need to shelve their best seller. It seems clear to me that it impinges on free speech. Money is just the means by which a newspaper is printed.