Today's Supreme Court Decision

I am saddened that many of my conservative friends, who have long (and rightly) spoken out about the constitutional dangers of judicial activism are champions of the travesty of the Supreme Court's decision today. In a 5-4 decision, the Court has granted corporations a right that the first amendment clearly provided only as a "right of the people" for the past 220 years. By doing so, corporations now have a double measure of free speech. Each and every citizen within the corporation has the original right of free speech, and now the corporation has a second "right" never heretofore granted. Money, not people will now have even greater control of the USA political process.

By creating these artificial collective voices with the stroke of a pen, the High Court has allowed these self-serving behemoths the right to shout so loudly that the singular voices of the People will now be undetectable amongst them. And, by kowtowing to these super voices, it is no longer true that all People are created EQUAL. Those with money are clearly "more equal than others."

I believe that history will show this to be a sad day for our Republic.