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Sunday, November 27, 2011

First Amendment hijacked by moneyed interests #ows

First Amendment hijacked by moneyed interests:

First Amendment hijacked by moneyed interests

A UC Davis police officer uses pepper spray on protesters during an Occupy rally Nov. 18.

A funny thing happened to the First Amendment on its way to the public forum: It was hijacked.

According to the Supreme Court, money is now speech, and corporations are now people.

Yet when real people without money assemble to express their dissatisfaction with the political



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