As long as I have written about SCOTUS today……I thought I would present this piece which could have far reaching implications……
We will have to wait for the close of session, June, for their ruling on this case……..what do you think they will have say on this issue?
In the past I have written many times about the campaigns and the lies they all spread…….UK has a law that only truth (simplistically put) can be in campaign ads…..and I think it is a great law……..the Us is swayed by lies and then they cannot figure out what happened….they want to believe that all is on the up and up…….
SCOTUS will be hearing a law from within the borders of this country, did not know about it, and their ruling could be something good but unfortunately with their abysmal record I am not very optimistic……from a report filed by Traci G. Lee…….
Are false statements about political candidates a criminal offense? According to an Ohio law which is the subject of an upcoming Supreme Court case, the answer is “yes.”
The Supreme Court will consider a challenge next week to an Ohio law that prohibits an individual or group from knowingly or recklessly making false statements in political campaigns. The case, Susan B. Anthony List v. Driehaus, was filed last August after conservative anti-abortion group the Susan B. Anthony List attempted to launch a billboard campaign in 2010 against former Rep. Steve Driehaus, a Democrat, who ended up losing his re-election bid.
The billboard would have claimed that Driehaus supported taxpayer-funded abortions because of his support for the Affordable Care Act. Driehaus appealed to the Ohio Elections Commission, invoking the Ohio law that barred false campaign statements, and the advertising company that owned the billboard space refused to rent it to the Susan B. Anthony List.
The question the Supreme Court justices will consider is whether the Ohio law violates the First Amendment, which the Susan B. Anthony List argues it does. “The Ohio Election Commission statute demonstrates complete disregard for the Constitutional right of people to criticize their elected officials,” SBA List President Marjorie Dannenfelser said in a press release last year, adding, “Driehaus’ original complaint should have never been enabled in the first place. The law must go.”
What a precedent that would set if SCOTUS would do the right thing……..about here I should be laughing at the thought of SCOTUS doing anything constructive……..as my friend Larry from Woodgate’s View said……..”I must have had pessimistic pudding for breakfast” (thanx Larry I needed that this morning)……..
Any thoughts?
https://lobotero.com/2010/11/05/where-is-the-truth-in-advertising/
https://lobotero.com/2010/11/17/truth-in-advertising-part-2/
CHANGE! That magical word that can deliver votes. Every American wants and sometimes demands change……but are they capable of change? Or is it just a political slogan to win over the population?
This has been a post in the making….I started with the opening statement and weeks later I am still trying to put it together…….
Americans say they are looking for change……most are not….what they are looking for is their party or candidate or whatever to be elected. To change Washington you would have to change the system…….ALL candidates are funded by special interests and they fund the candidates to get what they want….and they want things to remain the same…..they have a free run of DC they will NOT give that prestige up for any reason or than to be forced and I mean FORCED to relinquish their stranglehold on politics….and that my friend will never happen….not with the Dems or the GOP or the Tea Party or whatever little group one belongs.
Congress approval rating is at 13%, the lowest point in history and yet this rating does nothing to change their thinking and their policies……..the voter’s concerns means nothing to these people. In a recent survey 72% of this polled say that elected officials do not deserve to be re-elected and yet they are almost every time.
Do Americans really want change?
The reps will offer up reform and reform is NOT change. Reform is something done to appear to be concerned and changeable but in reality all it is is a feel good situation that gives the illusion of change. With reform the underlying problems will remain just out of sight.
Sorry to say but voting is another feel good situation for the people….they are not in control of the process…..they get to vote on a person chosen for them…..and that sounds a lot like the old USSR where voters got to vote yes or no on a candidate…..ours is a bit more sophisticated but it is basically a yes or no vote.
Another problem is the people accept the reform as change…either they are ignorant or they are just naive…….there has never been real change…..a butt load of reforms but change has been elusive.
Personally I do not believe that there will be substantial change in my lifetime…..and that brings me to a quote I have in the back of my old radical brain….”There is NO solution….but revolution”. Now the word revolution will make a lot of my readers shudder……remember though there are many ways to have a revolution and NOT all involve a bang bang shoot’m up………
If you are NOT willing to make change….then please stop using the term…..for so far all it is is a political campaign prop. And a real cute bumper sticker.
In Saner Thought 