Well-Financed Speech Crushes Free Version (McEnroe | Hartford Courant)

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Colin McEnroe
To Wit
January 24, 2010

... Our First Amendment allows me to express myself freely. I can say: "Chief Justice Roberts is pinhead and a tool of Wall Street." I can say, "Justice Samuel Alito is a mangy dog licking the boots of corporate America." I can say, "Justice Clarence Thomas is a crazy person who should be in a facility where he can't hurt anybody." And no one can stop me.

This aspect of free speech has relatively little to do with the case, but it did make me feel better.

The court had to get your boot off the neck of corporate America. It is unfair and disgusting the way you, the reader of this column, have been holding down Morgan Stanley and Aetna and ConocoPhillips by not letting them pour quite as many millions of dollars as they want to into political campaigns. It is humiliating the way they are forced to set up political action committees to funnel money out of their treasuries and into elections. Stop, it you bullies! Stop picking on Walmart and ExxonMobil and Bank of America! They deserve to have a voice in the public debate, just the way you have.

That's what the court's majority said ...

http://www.courant.com/news/opinion/editorials/hc-mcenroe-court-campaigns.artjan24,0,4324575.column

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