What is Occupy Wallstreet?

[kandrathe]

Of course drawing a line is not easy, but I think making it illegal to get private (corporate) funding for election campaigns would be a big step.

Yet... We have limits on how much a corporation, or an individual can contribute to any campaign. That part of US campaign finance reform stands.

What the SCOTUS did rule was that political speech, in the form of newspaper articles, blogs, movies, books, etc. cannot be limited without impinging on the rights of everyone. So, if Micheal Moore could make a film as an individual, but no company could distribute it -- that also muzzles speech. You could engage in speech as an individual (in making a movie, or writing a book, or a newspaper opinion piece) so long as no corporation distributes what you are saying, including newspapers, TV, or the internet.

Where it really started to get dicey was when the government was looking into shutting down political web sites... Or having to ban foreign IP addresses containing political speech. Enter the jack booted thugs.

I know your position on gun ownership, but bear with me... The NRA exists as a political organization to defend the 2nd amendment. Because of the law they were barred from having an opinion, or running ads for or against political candidates in the 30/60 day window before an election. They were essentially taken out of the debate.