The Supreme Court; of the wealthy, by the wealthy, for the wealthy

I begin this blog on the day after I heard the Supreme Court decision to allowing corporations to spend unlimited amounts of money to support a Federal Political Candidate.

Immediately, when I heard this information, I knew that our democracy was in big trouble.

The only thought I had at the time to oppose the actions of this most powerful court in our land was to mobilize the people against this outrage.

It is clear to me that the greatest threats to the freedom of the American people now sit on the United States Supreme court. They are John Roberts, Alito, Scalia, Clarence Thomas, Anthony Kennedy and John Paul Stevens.

I begin this blog to mobilize. People must protest. This is our country, we cannot allow 4- 5 Supreme Court Justices to destroy it.

Having been the victim of predatory banking and health insurance companies, I know first hand the debauchery average citizens can suffer when corporations have more rights than people.

And it is clear, that with campaign finance laws that allow huge corportions to use their billions of dollars to influence the elections of our country's representatives the people will have no say in the government at all.

This will become a nation of rape and pillage, literally. The poor will become poorer, and the rich will become richer.

What is most important to understand is that this is a society that is run by money, not big money, but simply money. Without money, people starve. Without money, people die of curable diseases.

So, it is not a matter of richer and poorer, but more importantly, it is a matter of weaker and stronger. Of life and death.

The strong and the rich will get stronger and richer, and a class society of the very rich and the very poor will be in place.

And with this legislation, this will happen very soon. Before any of the 'masses' that vote Republican will even know what has happened to them. The ignorance of the voters in this country is revolting. I asked one voter, that was 'thrilled' by the election of the Republican 'Brown' in Massachusetts 'why?' - her answer? 'Chappaquiddick!' When so much is needed to keep this democracy healthy this level of simpleminded, ludicrous behavior is abhorrent.

Consider one of the more disturbing aspects of this corporate influence driven decision - the intellectual dishonesty openly displayed by CJ Roberts and Alito. Weren't they the nominees who assured the Senate Judiciary Committee that they would follow precedent, even if they disagreed, so as to assure confidence in the continuity and certainty of Supreme Court decisions? Now, through the legal fiction of designating a corporation a "person" for First Amendment purposes, corporate billions ring louder than their hollow words.

To be continued . . .