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420. Expanding the Forbidden City

By Joel Jacobsen

Anyone out there think it's coincidence that the Supreme Court should choose this moment in our political history to declare that insurance companies have a constitutional right to spend unlimited amounts of cash to defeat members of Congress who vote in favor of health care reform? My Examiner.com column, written for a general audience, explains with as temperate language as I could muster the basic point of yesterday's ruling: some things are too important to be left to democracy.  They must instead be entrusted to our tribal elders, the Council of Wise People. The Forbidden City in the middle of our public square is engaged in annexing surrounding territory with all the aggressive zeal of a Sun Belt city of the 1970s.  The Supreme Court has now declared that democratic  elections, being essential to our democracy, cannot be allowed to slip into the control of the people acting democratically through their elected representatives...continue to full post

Full post as published by Judging Crimes on January 22, 2010 (boomark / email).