Still trying to sort out the implications of the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission Supreme Court decision this week?
Puzzled by President Obama’s threat of a “forceful response”? Wondering what sort of legislative remedies against the First Amendment are being cooked up even now by Sen. “Schemer” Schumer?
Tempted to believe the moonbat ravings of New York Times readers or the unhinged, Howard-Beale-like broadcasts of MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann that the 5-4 opinion presages a wholesale corporate takeover of the electoral process?
To get a sense of what really was at stake — nothing less than freedom of speech – have a look at this video, produced by the libertarian Cato Institute. As Mark Tapscott noted yesterday in the Washington Examiner:
I’ve read more newspaper and magazine articles, court cases, and blog posts on various aspects of campaign finance reform than I care to remember, but none of them captured the essential points of what is at stake as well as this video produced by the Cato Institute:
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And then shudder to think — if the lawyers who argued on behalf of the government in this case had their way — how close to the world of Fahrenheit 451 we are.
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