U.S. Corruption Endorsed
Posted on 03. Oct, 2012 by Alan Hart in US
Carter slams U.S. Supreme Court for its endorsement of corruption
By Alan Hart
I have often said and written that in some important respects America is the least democratic country in the world because what passes for democracy there is for sale to the highest bidders (the Zionist lobby being one of them). It’s now apparent that former President Jimmy Carter agrees.
In his latest Conversation at the Carter Center, he said:
“You know how much I raised to run against Gerald Ford? Zero. You know how much I raised to run against Ronald Reagan? Zero. You know how much will be raised this year by all presidential, Senate and House campaigns? $6 billion. That’s 6,000 millions.” (It was “zero” from private donors, corporates and individuals, because Carter accepted public funding).
That was part of his devastating indictment of the U.S. electoral process which, he said, “is shot through with financial corruption that threatens American democracy.” He added: We have one of the worst election processes in the world right here in the United States of America, and it’s almost entirely because of the excessive influx of money.”
And that’s because of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2010 ruling that gave unlimited freedom to special interest groups, which represent the wishes and demands of corporations and lobbyists of all kinds, to provide unlimited campaign funding to third-parties that don’t have to disclose their donors. (The Supreme Court justified its decision on the grounds that the First Amendment of the American Constitution prohibited government from restricting independent political expenditures by corporations and unions).
Carter expressed his hope that “the Supreme Court will reverse that stupid ruling,”
President Obama is on the record in a chat with the internet community Reddit as saying that if the Supreme Court does not re-visit the issue, he will seek to challenge its ruling by pushing for a constitutional amendment. (Right now Obama’s concern is obviously aggravated by the fact that a handful of conservative billionaires – some if not all of them rabid supporters of the Zionist state of Israel right or wrong – are pumping in hundreds of millions of dollars to saturate media markets in vital swing states. They seem to share one of the ideas that drove Adolf Hitler’s propaganda maestros – no matter how big the lie, the more you tell it, the more likely it is to be believed. Zionism knows that to be true).
There is also support for Carter and Obama’s contempt for the Supreme Court ruling from Judge Richard Posner. He is a highly respected member of the Chicago-based Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, widely regarded as his nation’s most prolific jurist-academic and seen by some as the most influential judge outside of the nine members of the Supreme Court.
What has he said? This:
“Our political system is pervasively corrupt due to our Supreme Court taking away campaign-contribution restrictions on the basis of the First Amendment.”
In a recent National Public Radio interview Judge Posner also expressed a degree of contempt for what he described as the “real deterioration in conservative thinking” in recent years. He added: “I’ve become less conservative since the Republican Party started becoming goofy.” (From my side of the water it seems that if Romney’s funders fail in their efforts to buy the White House for him, the Republican Party will have no future unless its moderate, old-fashioned conservatives break away from the “goofy” extremists who have taken over the party machine).
It might well be that a second-term Obama will seek to mobilize support for a constitutional amendment to enable the Supreme Court’s ruling to be reversed, but his chances of success on that front would be poor to say the least because a constitutional amendment requires ratification by three-quarters of the country’s 50 states.
As I write I am reminded (as I noted in my book Zionism: The Real Enemy of the Jews) that President Kennedy tried and failed several times to introduce legislation to end the corruption of election campaign funding; and I can almost hear some of my readers saying, “Yes, and look what happened to him!”
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Amerikagulag
03. Oct, 2012
Carter is one of the the last trustworthy men in the US government. The ONLY one worth his pension. He's been open and honest about Palestine for decades. He sees it for what it is and calls it like it is.
He's absolutely right. Not only is the election system frought with corruption, but the Supreme Court is nothing but a Lobbying piggy bank! It should be dissolved and a new set of keepers installed.
Rehmat
04. Oct, 2012
The United States is not a democracy". Its Constitution calss it "republic".
More and more Americans are waking-up to the reality that country’s political establishment (Republicans, Democratic, Tea Party or Green Party) lacks true leaders who are dignified, moral, uncorruptable and dedicated to the national interests of the United States and its citizens of all color, ethnic and religious backgrounds.
The American electrode system gives Americans the choice between evil and slightly less evil. And anyone decides not to choose among the two evils by boycotting the election – he still plays the part of collaborator with the evil system.
With a exception of a few US lawmakers, such as, Paul Findley, Cynthia McKinney, Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul - all US lawmakers are affraid to stand-up to the powerful pro-Israel lobby groups. The secret code in US politics is: “If you want to get ahead; you don’t criticized Israel, you defend Israel“.
http://rehmat1.com/2012/10/04/paul-roberts-president-like-cynthia-mckinney/