Supreme court protects big business

After a long campaign in the courts, the corporate elites have managed to do what King George failed to do - put an end to this country's democracy. It began with the Supreme Court granting corporations "personhood" in a series of cases including 1886 Santa Clara v. Southern Pacific Railroad, which granted the same rights and privileges to faceless corporate institutions as flesh and blood citizens.

The second victory for the corporate elites was 1976 Supreme Court decision in Buckley v. Valeo, which made the claim that money equals speech. Combined with the existence of corporate personhood these super-citizens could press their "rights" by purchasing politics wholesale.

Now with the most recent ruling by the Supreme Court, the government is not allowed to regulate corporate money because these "persons" have the "right" to free speech and deserve the same protection as any other "citizens."

Tom Cordaro

Aurora