#FlipCitizensUnited Annabel Park Speech at US Supreme Court 2/23/12

www.coffeepartyusa.com by DAVE LEFCOURT, OpEdNews.com Today, I attended a protest rally outside the Supreme Court. It wasn't a huge rally by any stretch of the imagination (less than 300 people), but there was considerable media taking video and recording the remarks of the organizers, Common Cause and the Coffee Party. The protest was centered on the Court's Citizens United ruling in 2010 and the need for it to be overturned. One of the protest signs was clearly aimed at Justice Anthony Kennedy which read," Yes Justice Kennedy, we the people see the corruption." That was in direct reference to Kennedy's assertion, as the writer who wrote the majority opinion in Citizens, "the Court now concludes that independent expenditures, including those made by corporations, do not give rise to corruption or the appearance of corruption"and the appearance of influence or access will not cause the electorate to lose faith in this democracy." The last speaker at the rally concluded (and I'm paraphrasing here), "Kennedy must now see the fallacy of what he wrote and must realize in light of the huge independent expenditures we have seen already in the Republican presidential primary campaign and later in the election campaign, does give rise to corruption or the appearance of it and does cause the electorate to lose faith in this democracy." Now this writer is quite aware that many people on the left consider this Court, particularly the five right wing ideologues, including Kennedy <b>...</b>
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