According to the late edition of the Monday January 31st New York Times, an exclusive meeting set up by the secretive billionaire Koch brothers at an exclusive California resort was crashed by hundreds of liberal "protesters" (New York Times, Jan. 31, 2011, p.10). This meeting was exclusively for rich elites, perhaps some powerful politicians or their supporters or minions, and may even have had certain right-wing Supreme Court Justices as invitees. The Justices may have improperly voted for the notorious "Citizen's United" case, which disregarded decades of previous Supreme Court decisions in order to allow unlimited and anonymous political donations, even for billionaires and corporations. By the way, these two wrongheaded, right-wing conservative Supreme Court Justices are friends of the Koch brothers and have attended previous such meetings. In my opinion, based on the two Justices relationship to the brothers Koch "Citizens United" should be invalidated or be voted against by Congress or We the People.
If you want more information on the Koch brothers read the Hightower Lowdown and/or the Washington Spectator newslettters. The brothers Koch appear to be spawn of nepotism (likely inherited wealth) who spend millions and millions of dollars to fund right-wing causes purportedly in their own business self-interest. They are basically the men who supplied the bulk of the funding of the Tea Party propaganda movement, which motivated millions of people to vote against their own self-interest in the previous election. They epitomize why plutocracy (government by the rich) is hazardous to our freedoms, our health, our environment, and our collective future(s) as individuals and as a nation. I doubt it will happen, but due to financial bullies like them, campaigns should severely limit donations unless each inidividual citizen (and corporations are not people) is represented equally. It is unfortunate that politicians pay heed to the wealthy like bees are attracted to honey. (tbc?)
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