Listeners responded to last week's Supreme Court decision to remove campaign finance restrictions on companies, unions and non profits.
"How can the Supreme Court equate rights of individuals to that of a structure established solely for business? There was little question before, but now there is clear confirmation; we have an activist court. The Justices are not calling "balls and strikes" a la Justice Roberts' confirmation statement, but making radical changes in the democratic process."
—James from Red Bank, New Jersey
"After airing distraught listeners who couldn't understand, and disagreed with, the decision -- it got me thinking about Secretary of State Clinton jawboning the Chinese over internet censorship. This became an issue when Google announced it could no longer do the Chinese Government's bidding regarding censoring content. The tone of the report seemed to me that Clinton was supporting Google against Chinese censorship. So does that mean censoring corporations in the U.S. is a good and wholesome thing for democracy, but is an evil to be fought at ever turn when it happens overseas?"
—John (via email)
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