In what will certainly become the most impactful decision that the Supreme Court has made in recent years, the justices have handed down what may be the most harmful assault on individual rights since the Dred Scott case.

In today’s ruling the court split 5-4 in allowing corporate interests to now legally play in the world of political discourse by saying that corporations have a right to free speech and that right may be exercised in the form of dollars spent.

This decision has two important aspects that will affect us all; the opening of the floodgates for unlimited corporate funding in the political arena, and the dilution of our rights by the creation of corporations as super-individuals that have rights above and beyond what mere human beings can ever possibly hope for.

The good news is that We, The People, still have power.  This is something that we can still fight against and overcome.  The bad news is that nothing short of a Constitutional amendment that defines that the rights guaranteed to us in the Constitution as belonging only to natural persons and not artificial persons (corporations) is going to work.

Please, PLEASE contact your congressional senators and representatives and request that they start moving towards an amendment to reverse the damage done by today’s decision.

1) you believe in “limited government”…
but have no problem with public employees ordering the torture of people to death half way around the world.

2) you believe in “personal responsibility”…
but think if you repeat John 3:16 often enough that somehow torturing a man to death 2000 years ago and washing yourself in his blood will miraculously absolve your responsibility for the sins you continue to commit.

3) you believe in the “rule of law”…
unless some new spooky villain comes along and threatens you. then the government can do whatever it wants to make you feel all safe and warm and cozy again.

4) you believe in the constitution…
but think the only part worth defending is the second amendment, and so long as you have a permit and do it a “free speech zone”

5) you believe in “freedom” …
but won’t hesitate to stoke a mob mentality and use tyranny of the majority in the name of “protecting families”

You don’t appear to know what “freedom” means.

There must not be a tea-bagger alive who has ever had to sit all night in the Charity hospital in a city like New Orleans, waiting for the morning shift to call their number.

In hospitals across America, the uninsured wait there through the night in the midst of all that painful sickness, some with swine flu, others on the verge of a heart attack.

Others sit there in agony reading old magazines and drinking bad coffee, waiting for something as simple as a cup of pink-cocktail, the drink they mix for those who suffer severe acid reflux disease, a malady that sometimes hurts in your chest so bad you think you are having a heart attack. It is a mix of the anti-acid Maalox, Novocain to numb the esophagus, and the tranquilizer Xanax to relax the muscles and relieve the pain.

The only place you can get it in the U.S. is in a hospital emergency room. They serve it by the drink there, in a little plastic cup — for about $1,000 a drink.

President Obama DID say “we will call them out”.

I have to say that I think he’s kept his word.