Lobbying Power.

Do you guys think that lobbying power should be restricted in certain ways for large groups and corporations?  This is naive in one respect-such an attempt might be unconstitutional, since a group has a first amendment right to express its agenda.  But there are other ways to approach it, and how that relates to congressional persuasion, or even 'gifts' is up for discussion.  I don't really know anything about it so I'm throwing it out there.  Also relevant to the discussion may be the ways in which a company is afforded the same legal rights as an individual.

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Yes, precisely. I think thou dost protest too much, you whiny little bitch.

There are billions of people some living most now dead who would have given up their right to freedom of speech or almost any other of your inalienable rights for a god-damned bag of rice. You're a moron with no grasp of reality, because guess what? If you refuse to give up your rights and starve to death, you don't have any rights anyway: only people can have rights, not corpses.

If Soviet Russia had made living conditions better than no-one who benefited from those living conditions would have had the moral imperative to revolt, and most likely none of them would have. The ones who should and do revolt are the ones being jailed, not the ones watching soap operas on their state-sponsored televisions.

Maybe maybe maybe you'd starve to death for your right to write "fuck" on your face in magic marker and shout "anarchy in the uk!" in front of Buckingham Palace... and if so, I think it is you that is the moron.