"Citizens United" is the Mirror Image of DRED SCOTT: Properties Are People, it claims

[2 Much Tribulation]

The infamous Dred Scott decision stood for the proposition that people (slaves) are property.

Today's mirror image of the Dred Scott decision, with the Orwellian name "Citizens United," stands for the proposition that Property is People.

This decision, too, will live in infamy.

Corporations (which are merely property interests) are not the same as, and do not properly have the full political speech rights like individual human beings.

Human beings are "endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights".

It's always been an axiom of the law that corporations DO NOT HAVE inalienable rights.

But now, even a 100% vote of both Houses signed by the President is insufficient to re-regulate corporations, at least without the consent of the US Supreme Court, because they grounded their ruling in an interpretation of the Constitution. They've weaponized the Constitution and are using it to tie the hands of what is rightfully the only sovereign and ultimate power in the USA - We the People - forcing us to be subjecting to unlimited propaganda all protected by the new-fashioned First Amendment.

No, it doesn't matter if unions will also be able to engage in unlimited propaganda, it doesn't matter even if they weren't dwarfed in financial power by corporations.

Whether people are deemed property or property is deemed "people" - either way people are enslaved to huge machines of property that do not and cannot know the meaning of the word "democracy."

Today's decision is the reverse echo of Dred Scott. Instead of People are Property, it's Properties Are People. That was BS during the time of Dred Scott, and it's still BS today.

Thanks to Land Shark for the Dred Scott mirror image ideas above.

[ddeclue]

1. The result is still that people will end up being property under this decision too

since our votes and voices will no longer matter.

[Land Shark]

8. Properties are people under this decision, so people can be property n/t

[Sebastian Doyle]

2. Though, as Thom Hartmann pointed out....

The Dred Scott decision was so fucking horrible that it woke up a lot of people to the reality of what slavery was. Of course it also took a bloody 4 year war to resolve that, and even that only ended the actual slavery, but not the prejudice behind it.

Will THIS bullshit decision also wake people up? Obviously not the ones who depend on the corporate media spin for the facts of the case. :(

[villager]

3. That's just it -- we know what the Dred Scott decision ultimately led to

...

[2 Much Tribulation]

9. um, Alex, what is civil war? n/t

[dflprincess]

4. The next logical step will be to announce

that elections as we know them will no longer be held - but on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November "donations" will be totaled up and the candidate with the most money wins. One dollar, one vote.

[Land Shark]

10. No, elections are a very useful sheen of apparent respectabiilty. n/t

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

5. That's about the best framing of this that I can imagine. BRILLIANT!

and I mean that. Hats off to you and I hope this frame travels far and wide. Makes a complex subject very graspable.

[2 Much Tribulation]

6. Glad you like it! n/t

[Land Shark]

7. When Properties are People, People are Property. n/t