[BITList] murder

[COLIN TAYLOR]

Dave

the systems I mentioned are for the federal government. local governments are not run along exactly the same lines.
mayors can appoint many local officials them selves, consequently [and like candidates for many influential offices] they have many hangers on who have contributed to their election campaigns and expect something in return – like a well paying sinecure, etc.

unfortunately there is no actual or effective limit to the amount contributors can make to a candidates election coffers. nor does there seem to be a limit on the time before an election when a candidate can start his electioneering. to me this system seems ripe for abuse and influence peddling, however when challenged the US supreme court has ruled as follows!
Justices, 5-4, Reject Corporate Spending Limit
By ADAM LIPTAK 
WASHINGTON — Overruling two important precedents about the First Amendment rights of corporations, a bitterly divided Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the government may not ban political spending by corporations in candidate elections. 

The 5-to-4 decision was a vindication, the majority said, of the First Amendment’s most basic free speech principle — that the government has no business regulating political speech. The dissenters said that allowing corporate money to flood the political marketplace would corrupt democracy. 

so it is what it is...........a fucking circus.

ct





From: David Harvey 
Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 10:37 PM
To: BitList 
Subject: Re: [BITList] murder

I see a connection between the Mayor (executive) appointing the police chief (law) as being in conflict with the separation of power. 

Dave


On 18 August 2011 11:26, <x50type at cox.net> wrote:

  oh, that separation, Dave

  The framers of the Constitution decided to base the American governmental system on this idea of three separate branches: executive, judicial, and legislative. The three branches are distinct and have checks and balances on each other. In this way, no one branch can gain absolute power or abuse the power they are given. In the United States, the executive branch is headed by the President and includes the bureaucracy. The legislative branch includes both houses of Congress: the Senate and the House of Representatives. The judicial branch consists of the Supreme Court and the lower federal courts. 

  As far as religion goes the First Amendment of the national constitution, part of the United States' Bill of Rights: states, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..."

  do you see any connection to the shootings in new orleans, which was the original subject?

  colin

  From: David Harvey 
  Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 9:00 PM
  To: BitList 
  Subject: Re: [BITList] (no subject)

  Colin, 

  The separation of the government or parliament, the law and the executive ( and chuck in religion as well)

  Dave
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