by Tim Williams

Created on: January 22, 2010   Last Updated: January 23, 2010

The latest Supreme Court ruling is another presidence in the continued cycle of the United States Supreme Court to interpret their own views on what the Constitution really states. With this ruling, five Supreme Court Justices ruled and interrupted the United States issue on freedom of speech and confuses it with corporate finance contributions. Free speech and funneling money into campaign coffers are two distinct entities and one has no bearing on the other.   

   
What has occurred within the past 60 years in elections all across the United States is the advent of mass media, Television and cable broadcasting all are now used exclusively in political campaigns. So, that if candidates want to be considered a viable candidate, they have to raise exorbitant amounts of money for maximum exposure by the mass media just to get their message out to the general public.

The vast amounts of funds that are now linked exclusively to media exposure needed by any candidate or political party according to this Supreme Court ruling indicates that corporations, unions and business that have vast amounts of capital to inject into political campaigns, can sway elections one way or another.

Elections will now more than ever be bought and paid for by big business and the general public will be left without any voice or direct influence in elections.

This leaves any candidate who is a direct beneficiary of corporate contributions will now be linked directly to corporate influence and not to the concerns of the public in their own districts, state, or to the nations best interest but will now be serving their corporate benefactors.   
   
Justice Kennedy stated in his interpreting of free speech in the United States Constitution, "Congress cannot choose an unconstitutional remedy to curtail improper influences from independent expenditures. It is our tradition that more speech not less is the governing rule. An outright ban on corporate political speech during pre elections is not a permissible remedy."

The free speech in this ruling is directly confused and now interpreted by those Justices that voted this ruling as giving corporate business an unrestricted opportunity to interject the vast amounts of capital needed now to secure their candidates own future as well as their own.   
   
This is just the most recent ruling that the United States Supreme Court has done to further undermine the Constitution as it was intended by our founding fathers. There have been many others that have contributed to the way our society has evolved.

What this will do to the future of the United States will only accelerate the process from equal representative government to one of corporate influence with the general public left out without any voice in governments at all levels.   
   

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