Saturday, January 22, 2011

Let's reconsider Citizen's United

Kling is working the issue.
What rights should management have, acting on behalf of shareholders?
Citizen's Unitited management on behalf of their shareholder, wants the same free speech right as any other person and is governed by law.

Then we make if a crime for individuals to engage in certain electioneering activities around election time. In the case of Citizen's United, they were equally prohibited from film releases, as any other individual, when the film was ruled too political too near.

As individuals Management already had the same rights, those were not restricted. We could rewrite the law to say, individual management acting on behalf of shareholders have these extra restrictions. Hell, we could make if mandatory life in prison for any management to act on behalf of shareholders. They still have unrestricted individual rights, never taken from them without judicial approval.

If this was a rights case, then did any of Management appear on docket with the Supremes claiming some restriction of individual rights? Where did some individual transfer limited Individual right to another?  How did the Robot get born?

No, Roberts in his ignorance gave citizen's rights to robots. They now have the right to drive, did you know that? Say GM Onstar is talking with a remote cab, out loud.  That Onstar robot has the right to say 'Kiss my ass', regardless of who is in the cab. 

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