hokay.... Fascism 1: Democracy O SCOTUS

Or: Orwell's 1984 arrived a bit late...

To understand, read Keith Olberman's special comment here.

The decision sounds so innocent on the surface, ostensibly about first amendment rights, and freedom of speech, but the latest decision is horrendous in what it has enabled corporations to do.

Ok, am algerisch when it comes to that word, and THAT is a play on words. Algerisch means Algerian. (When Peter's mother was in the hospital dying, her bed-neighbor asked him to close the window because she was 'algerisch' when it came to drafts. It should have been 'allergisch' which means allergic. Somehow it became a joke over three decades, go figure. We both loved us some malapropisms.)

But seriously... the decision was horrible. For me, 'The corporations' meant something far more than the average American would think. I grew up in a city that was the largest conglomerate of factories in the entire world. Run by... 'the corporations'. Uh-huh... They were sort of this nebulous entity that had all power. Grew up in 'corporation housing' fucking everything was run by them.

And they always had people by the short hairs till it hurt, believe me.

'Sixteen Tons' by Tennessee Ernie Ford in the Fifties had more relevance to us than you could ever imagine....

This colossus of manufacturing never recovered after the Depression in 1929. And when I was growing up, the enterprise was dying... or just dropping everything, and moving their business to Taiwan, because labour was so much cheaper there. And the city never recovered, not really, to this day...

And I have a personal story to relate about this, about how corportations can break you. It involves The Venrable.... When I was about fourteen or so, there was a union organiser who was at the factory he was working in, who spoke, seemingly... don't know exactly.

But after this 'event', or whatever it was, The Venerable was 'seen' talking to the organiser in the millyard... (Everyone was paranoid back then, and rats and whores were all over the place....) He just had some questions he wanted answered, and seemingly wasn't planning to join that union.....

He was immediately fired. Rights to free speech? IN YOUR DREAMS, hey...

'The corporation' put him on a black list. And he couldn't find work anywhere for weeks.

It was only the second time I saw my father cry out of sheer despair.

Whatever... now this SCOTUS decision gives corportations everything they ever wanted and dreamed.... Olberman painted the picture of what can happen, hopefully not, but can... They can basically fuck America over, thanks to it.

It is far more eloquent, and check it out on Countdown if you have a fast connection.

I don't just get the shudders about this... I am disgusted. Olberman didn't go far enough. Congresspeople and Senators are already prostitutes. But now they have a pimp, who will beat them up if they don't do the pole dance....

How wunnerful, as what's his name polka boy used to say on tee-vee...