Radio friend Mike sent me this. It turns up on another blog.

The primary indication and responsibility of citizenship is the right to vote. While a citizen may choose NOT to exercise that right, corporations don’t even HAVE a right to vote, at least not in the legal way of a citizen. In a sense, they DO vote. In the Middle East this form of voting is called “baksheesh” or bribery, and though it’s widely practiced, even there it’s illegal. In the US, it’s called “corporate campaign contributions,” but unlike the Middle East, it’s legal, mainly because these contributions have bought laws that make them legal. This is the same as Alice’s Red Queen saying that a word means what she wants it to mean. However, to mix a metaphor, A rose by any other name is still bribery.

Money is NOT free speech. Money is legal tender and it says so right on the bills. Legal tender, of course, means the money legally can be offered (tendered) as a medium of exchange. When corporations tender money to a political candidate, what is it that the political candidate can offer in exchange? The only thing any politician does is create legislation, therefore, ipso facto, the corporation tenders money in exchange for legislation. Of course, this would be legislation favorable to the corporation. In other words, this is bribery. And here, too, the bribees have seen to it that the word no longer means what it means.

I’d like to start a campaign of rebranding our political heritage in view of this miserable situation into which the Supreme Court has just put us. This falls in line with the strategy the far right has used so effectively in the past: “Obama is a Muslim;” “The single payer plan is Socialism;” “Global warming is a liberal plot.” A grassroots movement that would be the liberal internets’ equivalent of the tea-baggers but with a less deviant symbolism.

So, I suggest everybody start calling our country “The United Corporations of America.” The term “Citizen” should become “Minion;” we should incessantly insist that in light of this new ruling, we no longer can call our form of government a Democracy, but a Corporatocracy; let’s worry that the Bill of Rights will be reworked and then renamed the “Bill of Indenture;” let’s reveal that the House of CEOs and the Board Chairmen’s Senate plan to rewrite the Preamble to the Constitution to read, “Government of Corporations, by Corporations and for Corporations.”

In addition, we should claim that a manifesto will soon be published that eliminates a citizen’s guarantees of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness and in its place will be the corporations’ guarantees of Bonuses, Freedom from Regulations and the Pursuit of Unlimited Profit.