A Gentleman’s view.

Supreme Court hands the political process over to anyone in the world with enough money.

‘What the market will bear’ has always been the mantra of the Republican Party. Government intervention was always portrayed as intrusive to the natural order of things when it came to free and fair market practices. Well the free and fair practice of markets and politics just merged by a very generous decision by the United States Supreme Court. They ruled that it is against the First Amendment Free Speech rights to limit the amount of money that could be spent by corporations supporting candidates for political office as to do so to them is the same as doing so to a person and is illegal. Welcome to our worst nightmare. Literally, any law, any policy, and thing that is not in the best interest of profit can be manipulated, modified or stop dead in its tracks for the price of the right Politian. This, fortunately for most of us, cannot and will not take place over night.

There is a lot to be worked out to the point of a complete breakdown of our democracy as we know it but, consider these possibilities: Step one; receive August 6, 2001 intelligence briefing stating that there appears to be in place verified operations with the potential for attack to take place on our soil and take no steps to stop or defend against it when planes are mentioned, Step two; the attack on American soil on 9/11 and our reaction to it in looking for vengeance rather than justice for those who died that day, Step three; declaration of war to authorize use of military forces, Step four; permitting corporate ownership of and the creation of an army for profit; Blackwater, invasion of Afghanistan and authorization of torture and illegal detention, Step five; Invasion of Iraq with nothing in place prior to maintain order after removing Saddam Hussein, Step six; a republican congress using reconciliation to sign the Patriot Act into law while claiming any opposition to be aiding and abetting the enemy in order to put into place laws facilitating inordinate government intrusion the lives of American citizens without due process of law in order to ‘keep the country safe’, Step seven; stack the highest court in the land with a pro business, less government view and wait for the right case to come along to hand full control of the political process over to the profit minded bottom line thinking individuals. Not for nothing, Bush accomplished all the above in eight, and he took a lot of vacation.

Okay, I digressed on a tangent there, but my point being real simple; Former Vice President Dick Cheney could now go back and take leadership of Halliburton Corporation, which is no longer, headquartered in the United States of America, and being offshore not subject to our tax laws, and finance him or his daughter who is towing his line if not that of the national republican party and buy all the support necessary to get her elected as President and have her declare all Muslim and black population groups to be a danger to society and declare that they be interned until we could determine who was safe and who wasn’t in order cut down the chances of us being attacked from within our borders. Now with enough Democrats scared of being declared treasonous if not traitors for not offering total support for laws and practices that keep the citizens of this great country safe, I think obtaining that enough support for that kind of drastic action would take about ten to fifteen years to put into place, but you got to think, they really got a good start when you look at it. And they have their own private army to deal with any resistance along the way, Blackwater.

This may appear to be extreme to have happen here in America, but we had laws in place before the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and we still have people who don’t understand what all the brouhaha is about the water boarding. My point is the Supreme Court has opened some gaping holes into the laws put into place to stop that very thing such as the McCain/Feingold Act. But if a business has the rights of a human being and as such can have no limits placed on it when supporting political positions that may be brought forth to become law or a politician who may not have the best interest of his constituents but rather his personal bottom line, any scenario is possible, and I do mean any! Want to think extreme, a company could determine 7 dollars an hour now to be the minimum wage is too much for a businesses bottom line, the community agrees, but a politician will need the support of the money folks, and they think less expenses for business is good. Lower wages, no unemployment insurance, no health insurance for employees mean more profits and bonuses.

What will this do to the will of the people? The race is on for the most powerful corporation whether it is commercial or athletic, or religious or chemical, to find the right Senator or Governor to run that state or manipulate some law or maybe totally wreck the country right now with enough money and support behind them to be brought into any position in Congress, State Capitals, and political offices all over the land. Any claim can be made about about choices and decisions being made in the best interest of the city, state, or country and reasoned to be in the best interest of the rest of the world and anyone who disagrees, don’t worry, there will be plenty of money to squash the opposition by hook or crook. Rush Limbaugh is pro-business; I believe Glen Beck, Sean Hannity and Sara Palin are also, FOX could support any of them. Who, I ask you, just who is going to stop them? Seriously! Who is going to stop them now?

© 2010, agentleman.