A message from a dear friend re justice in the USA

Morning. Got a bit cranky reading the news...
The US Supreme Court Justices Kennedy, Roberts Jr. (am I wrong to think that 'Jr.' is code for 'I am a belong to the sort of family that is preoccupied by inventing a lineage'? And that guy using Jr. is also saying 'hey, look at me. I express MY filial piety every day. What do you do?), Justices Scalia, Alito Jr. (again....isn't it kinda 'unamerican' - ugly concept, but what the hell - to demean your individuality by linking your name, your identity as a person, to your daddy's name?) and Clarence Thomas voted this week to give corporations (disguised in the specific case as conservative 'non-profit' Citizens United - christ) the same free speech rights as US citizens.

Don't they know that corporations aren't people? Don't they see that profit maximisation was not the goal being articulated by the First Amendment? Is it too liberal to judge that a corporation's purpose is not sufficiently rich and varied and layered and often conflicted to be equated to the aspirations and understanding of a human?

Is it too much to fantasize that they would be keen to protect the already crappy quality of US political debate?

Or that they might look at most European election laws to see how those judiciaries are preoccupied by the hijacking of politics by money?

I guess they would find it 'unamerican' to actually follow european judicial instincts, but maybe they could, at least, take a hint?

Can we now say - have you understood what you have done, you dumb, dangerous fuckwits?

I must assume you do, you ignorant dopes? I mean you are Supreme Court Justices, which I guess must mean you are, at least, capable of actually following a logical chain of consequences?

And you're comfortable with this, you moronic idiots? You sleep easy on the further destruction of balanced argument by economic power, you sad empty sacks of poisonous shit bags? You see no reason to look after the poor and the voiceless, you dumb assholes?

You've just legislated to give Darth Vadar the right to cheat at chess.

Well, in the same spirit of reasoned debate that you now explicitly espouse, Fuck You All To Hell You Cunts.
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