Agreed.
On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 1:39 PM, Judah McAuley <ju...@wiredotter.com> wrote: > > Elections aren't an enterprise (or at least shouldn't be). And money is not > speech. Also, the country was not founded on the notion of free enterprise, > though I will grant you that it has been a major thread through a lot of > our existence. > > If you want to advocate for a candidate or a political party, then I > absolutely think you should do so. Write blog posts, make signs and go > stand next to a busy road, distribute fliers in your neighborhood. Hell, > organize a rally and a march! Free speech baby, everyone has the right to > speak up and make themselves heard. > > Donating $20 million dollars to a candidate that goes into an account that > they can they use to prop up the campaigns of other candidates and buy > their votes is not speech. It does not promote any principle of democracy. > It is a financial transaction, an attempt to buy influence, a perversion of > the notion that all men are created equal and that we all have a solemn > duty to get in and mix it up in the political arena to form a more perfect > union. > > Fuck that. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:369705 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
