25th
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2010
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Oh, Supreme Court…I have have no clue what you guys are playing at. What you give to the public with one hand, you take away with the other. Three days after their ruling to screw over American voters, the Supreme Court decided not to challenge a lower court’s ruling that California can have sections of the highway billboard free. California has had this policy in place for a very long time, where sections of the highway labeled “landscaped highway” are mostly free from billboards. As a result, I bet you can enjoy the fantastic California landscape a lot more. Hey, who knows, maybe there are less accidents because people are paying more attention to their surroundings. The story is that Nano Maldonado lived by one of these areas and wanted to put a billboard on his roof but was told he couldn’t. Over the past 10+ years he’s been challenging the policy, moving up the California court system pushing his luck only to be struck down by the Supreme Court recently. I don’t know what to think about the Supreme Court. And this isn’t a victory for people who want to see less ads, it’s a defeat of an advance of ads. Nothing’s going to change. But for right now, I’d say that’s pretty good.
[From Banbillboardblight.org]
22nd
01 -
2010
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You probably have heard it from other people. Maybe. If they’ve got a single brain cell working or not. If not, let me spell it out for you: American elections have officially been round up, taken out back, shot and then sold to the highest bidder. The Supreme Court ruled today that corporations and unions can give as much money as they want to candidates, with no limitations. None. And yes, the Supreme Court did this. The Supreme Court? Are you sure? The most powerful and respected judges in America? With decades of experience under their belts and degrees from prestigious universities? Those legendary arbiters of truth and reason? Yes, they did this. They did this to us. The most powerful court in America has failed its citizens.
You don’t need to be a Political Science degree to know this is bad. You don’t need a seal of approval to have an opinion about where you think your country is going. You don’t need a goddamn permit to be outraged at this. You don’t need to be afraid of being called a conspiracy theorist if you’re worried about your country. The battle lines have been drawn. Our government has been so thoroughly infiltrated by Wall Street business executives that even appointed Supreme Court judges have been bought, and the politicans have been routinely dismantling everything this country stands for.
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