Unstoppable force unleashed (Delmarva Media Group)

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Decision legalizes corporate influence over government
January 24, 2010

... how responsive to the will of the American public can a representative government be when it has been bought by special interests -- legally? Every vote, every speech, every decision could end up being weighed against how those corporate donors will react, whether a high-priced attack ad campaign will be launched against representatives who cast the "wrong" vote or whether campaign funding will be withheld when the next election rolls around.

We can now expect massive spending by corporate or wealthy special interests to become the norm as big business takes advantage of this opportunity to spend as much as it wishes to have its way, regardless of what may be at stake.

Free speech --the right of American citizens to speak up for or against whatever they feel strongly about --is guaranteed to the people by our Constitution.

But unbridled corporate spending for political purposes is not speech -- and it unleashes a force that cannot possibly under any scenario be countered or matched by ordinary American citizens, individually or collectively.

http://www.delmarvanow.com/article/20100124/OPINION01/1240341/-1/newsfront2/Unstoppable-force-unleashed

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