{"id":25886,"date":"2011-07-19T02:47:42","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T06:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=25886"},"modified":"2011-07-19T02:47:42","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T06:47:42","slug":"motion-to-amend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=25886","title":{"rendered":"Motion to Amend?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yea it seems that this is the newest thing<\/a> going around Facebook. <\/p>\n

\nWe, the People of the United States of America, reject the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United, and move to amend our Constitution to:<\/p>\n

Firmly establish that money is not speech, and that human beings, not corporations, are persons entitled to constitutional rights.
\n Guarantee the right to vote and to participate, and to have our vote and participation count.
\n Protect local communities, their economies, and democracies against illegitimate “preemption” actions by global, national, and state governments.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ok, so giving money to a cause you support is not freedom of speech by using money to buy fake awards and medals is. There is the question of human beings having right protected under the Constitution then who do they think makes up the different corporations? Participation count? Meaning what that your vote has a effect in a solid red or blue State like California or Texas? The last statement is advocating isolationism flat out. But this is something that you cannot put back into the bottle. But the comments about it are just odd. <\/p>\n

Reply 1<\/strong>The rich will strive to establish their dominion and enslave the rest. They always did, they always will. They will have the same effect here as elsewhere if we do not, by the power of government, keep them in their proper spheres. –Gouverneur Morris (in a letter to James Madison)<\/p>\n

Reply 2:<\/strong> The monied corporations, banks and large businesses should not be allotted the same rights as individual citizens. This country was founded to protect the citizens from the abuses of a ruling aristocracy. Now we are busy giving that protection away in favor of a new aristocracy.<\/p>\n

Reply 3:<\/strong> The government of the people, by the people and for the people, means that we are all equal. The decision in Citizens United made some people (lobbyists, big money) more equal than the less affluent citizenry. Citizens United is a shameful power grab by the new aristocracy.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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