luaptifer

It is an absurd notion that a fictional entity designed to maximize shareholder value should have the rights to free speech guarenteed for the purposes of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.But the mistake in Pandora's box was the act of opening its lid and, so, the overthrow of American democracy was marked on a timeline of events and political landmarks rather than a climax of violence.In Tobaccoup Road, deltadoc and TheFatLadySings document the series of 1994 memos which marked the buying of the Republican Revolution by the racketeer operations of Big Tobacco. The corporate agenda of the GOP has clearly governed us ever since.'The Freedom of No Choice' places that landmark into our current context. Now, even with the supposed progressive Pary controlling a full house (Congress and the White House), the corporate agenda still seems able to deny health care coverage to all Americans.These events are almost as if foretold in the Powell Manifesto written by a Philip Morris board member to the Chamber of Commerce in 1971. The nomination of its author to the Supreme Court, months later, turned Justice Lewis Powell's career to the task of the series of legal decisions that forces American elections through a filter of shareholder primacy and enslaves our elected decision-makers to all the free speech that is bought by corporate money.The freedom in being left with 'No Choice' against the insurmountable corporate right to buy our elected representatives can be liberating.