Obama ENDORSES Bernie Sanders’ Constitutional Amendment to OVERTURN CITIZENS UNITED

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68. Your position is that nonhuman entities are equal to humans.

Maybe that's not your intent, but it is the stance you're taking.

For a moment, let's enter your strange and puzzled world, where publicly-provided information accessible to millions for the asking, is actually private. Wait wait... you do understand that aspect of the internet, right? That this isn't private correspondence? No, posting here is like picking your nose in the middle of the crosswalk, if you don't want people to see it, don't do it there.

But alright, we're in your world. Let's say the police, just because they think it'd be funny, "seize the list" of DU members. Mmmkay. And then what? What will they do with this list of private, confidential information? Congratulations, the police, you have a data dump containing not one, not two, but twelve years of god-know-how-many-posters posting nonstop, 24/7/365.25. Complete with code. Woo, that's got to be a total fucking mess.

Alright, let's assume that they're motherfucking Batman and have a magical device that sifts through all that in a matter of minutes (Wikileaks couldn't pull that off, and Assange is about as close to Batman as I've seen - right down to the womanizing, but we're in your world, so the The Police can do this.) They find some naughty post you made in the Gardening Forum, where you secretly while away all the time you don't spend in the knitting group. What then?

Well... Nothing, really. You still have all your constitutional protections as a human being and as a US citizen... Which let us again note, DU is neither. Unless YOU have done something to warrant reasonable suspicion, they can't do a goddamned thing with the information they received from this information dump. I know, some of us like to imagine we're in a dystopian future where th police run around in snazzy red-and-black helmets bellowing "I AM THE LAW!" at everyone, but it's not quote that bad.

Which brings us to the point of the amendment; Removing the ability of corporations to protect their members from investigation and prosecution owing to the fact that somehow, in the 19th century, a Supreme Court Justice ruled that a corporate charter was equal to citizenship with all the rights and privileges thereof.