The other day there was a diary about a suit before the Supreme Court involving Monsanto, Why You Should Pay Attention: http://www.dailykos.com/...
Take a look at the comments in that diary. Things are bad. They're not going to go away by ignoring them.
So why can't Daily Kos wake up? Why can't its "leaders" and Rec List notables make the critcal distinction between symptoms of the problem, and the problem itself? The problem is institutionalized corruption, and only the Constitution can break the status quo in order for it to be reformed.
They're are doing this with the intent to destroy (2+ / 0-)
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all non-Monsanto farming. It's truly evil.
This is truly scary (2+ / 0-)
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I became aware of Mosanto's abusive corporate practices when watching the movie, "Food, Inc." Given that the Supreme Court is now in the hands of men who think corporations are people entitled to free speech, I suspect that they will probably rule in favor of Monsanto and drive independent seed producers and organic farmers out of business. The corporations have gained control of our Supreme Court and they will use it to their advantage over and over again.
Or, in other words our Supreme Court is an open-ended constitutional convention which case by case removes the protections the Constitution provides us.
To hell with Monsanto (1+ / 0-)
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Why does NewHour accept the sponsorship of this criminal giant?
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Yes. Have you noticed there has been ZERO (1+ / 0-)
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coverage of food issues on the NewsHour since Monsanto became a sponsor. I wonder if they'll analyze this case. They always talk about S. Court cases. If they pass on this one--well, I will boycott their show and call on all Americans to do the same.
Corporate governance pervades everything, including what information we're allowed. There's nothing more important to a sapient being than information. How can you get where you need to be if you don't even know where you are?
I think it just shows how corrupt the courts (5+ / 0-)
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and legislatures are....
When government becomes nothing more than institutionalized corruption; when corporate interests can drown out all other voices in the political process; and when the voting process itself is conducted on private source code; what do we as citizens have to lose? Everything. So why not return to our founding principles and hold a convention, so delegates can propose solutions to trends we all see as fatal?
What do we have to fear from a deliberative assembly of delegates, when whatever they discuss would still need 38 state legislatures to agree to before it could become law of the land? Simply holding elections for delegates will open up discussion on ideas that corporate media does not want opened up.
Professor Lawrence Lessig of Harvard (a pretty smart guy) advocates that we should "call a convention": http://www.callaconvention.org
The national group FOAVC has done an audit of the Congressional Record to discover all fifty states have cast applications, yet one session of Congress after the next simply ignores its constitutional obligation to issue the call: http://www.foavc.org
If you're worried and care, write a letter to each of your representatives and ask them what their position on the Article V Convention is. Ask them why they feel they're not bound by their oath to obey the Constitution.
Safe to say the Roberts Court will screw us all (2+ / 0-)
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It's the most corporate-owned court in US history (1+ / 0-)
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These guys are about one thing: sovereignity for corporations. Left, right, doesn't matter,that's not the main tenet of their ideology: they're about unchecked corporate power.
There's only one thing that will check corporate power and that's We The People gathered together in a deliberative assembly on the authority of the Constitution.