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Transcript Of An Interview With The Five Conservative Justices About The Recent Corporate Free Speech Case.

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YR: Why are the coming attack advertisements a victory for free speech?

AK: Because those louts in Congress and the Executive deserve to be attacked.

May I offer you some amontillado?

JR: Anyway, I don't know where all these people get off attacking us. The preamble to the Constitution says, "We the corporations of the United States, in order to establish a more perfect union, etc., etc., etc." In his Gettysburg Address, Lincoln said the Civil War must continue until the North wins so that government of the corporations, for the corporations and by the corporations shall not perish from the earth. The inscription on the Statute of Liberty er Statue of Liberty, says "Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to work in our factories." So what is the big deal about ruling that corporations have political and constitutional rights, just like us human people?

May I offer you some amontillado?

YR: Well, I gather from your opinion that you believe unions too, not just corporations, should have political and civil rights. How do you square that with the Preamble, the Gettysburg Address and so forth -- unions aren't corporations, after all.

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