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10 Feb 2012 07:30 pm
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Which has nothing or next to nothing to do with Citizens United and the way it freed speech and upheld the Constitution.It wasn't about contributions. It was about advertising one's political opinions; i.e political speech.If corporations have all the same Constitutional rights as individuals, then ...
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RichClem
10 Feb 2012 07:27 pm
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If she has four contemporaneous witnesses who saw her trauma....Juanita Broaddrick didn't have 4 contemporaneous witnesses.Do you even know what the word means?contemporaneous - occurring in the same period of timeShe was traveling with one other person.No one else saw her trauma contemporaneously....
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10 Feb 2012 07:06 pm
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If she has four contemporaneous witnesses who saw her trauma....Juanita Broaddrick didn't have 4 contemporaneous witnesses.Do you even know what the word means?contemporaneous - occurring in the same period of timeShe was traveling with one other person.No one else saw her trauma contemporaneously....
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RichClem
10 Feb 2012 01:28 pm
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HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaa, HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA, HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!No, a "union" is not a "person." And people belonging to both unions and corporations should be severely restricted in how the people belonging to either can hide behind the legal entity in donating money to political camp...
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Skeptic
10 Feb 2012 01:24 pm
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How about answering my question? How about answering my question, moonbat. Are you advocating we be able to violate unions' free speech? If not, why not? Are unions "people?"Unions spend many millions in secret. Should we outlaw that?What you're advocating is a blatant violation of the Constit...
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RichClem
10 Feb 2012 12:00 pm
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How about answering my question, moonbat. Are you advocating we be able to violate unions' free speech? If not, why not? Are unions "people?"What I'm advocating......How about answering my question? How about answering my question, moonbat. Are you advocating we be able to violate unions' free...
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09 Feb 2012 11:50 pm
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Here is a very interesting article about how corporations hijacked the 14th Amendment (meant to secure the political rights of former slaves) in an attempt to establish corporate personhood.The Fourteenth Amendment offered an opportunity to advance corporate interests, and the corporate attorneys se...
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09 Feb 2012 11:31 pm
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Misty: Cite the SCOTUS ruling where corporations were declared 'people' and were said to be entitled to the same Constitutional rights as individuals.U.S. Supreme Court LOUISVILLE, C. & C. R. CO. v. LETSON, 43 U.S. 497 (1844) 43 U.S. 497 (How.) THE LOUISVILLE, CINCINNATI, AND CHARLESTON RAILROAD...
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09 Feb 2012 11:06 pm
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How about answering my question, moonbat. Are you advocating we be able to violate unions' free speech? If not, why not? Are unions "people?"What I'm advocating is that no entity or person should be allowed to donate obscene amounts of money in secret to super PACS. Please explain to me how that i...
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Protectionist
09 Feb 2012 10:46 pm
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RichClem, on 11 March 2011 - 03:48 PM, said:"Meanwhile The Chosen One and Democrats are running a $1.6 trillion deficit and refusing to cut spending." Meanwhile, Congressional Republicans are running a $1.6 trillion deficit and refusing to restore taxes on the rich to their NORMAL levels of most o...
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