Remember when the new right wing majority congress decided to read the Constitution on the floor of congress? What was the purpose of that? I'm thinking it was a bait and switch move. They wanted all of us citizens to put the constitution in the forefront so that maybe we would feel okay or protected that congress, this repug congress, would abide by the rule of law, constitutional law.
Well, we have witnessed over and over again how the repugs are totally ignoring most of it. While the dems in congress keep referring to the constitution to battle new repug resolutions coming to the floor the repugs are totally following another set of laws.
New corporate protection laws created by corporate lawyers working (for at least 30 years) on ALEC.
American Legislative Exchange Council
I hadn't paid too much attention to the ALEC diaries as I thought it was mostly a Wisconsin Court thing and only related to the Koch brothers. Boy was I stupid.
Anyways, some comment Kos made about ALEC awhile ago caught my eye, sorry I can't remember what site I read it on though Politico comes to mind.
We know the Corrupt Corporation Government is the Power of the land (working on the world power take over) now and many of us have been dumbfounded at the lack of Law Suits against the corrupted Banksters and others that are JUST NOT HAPPENING.
Apparently because ALEC has been so successful in changing the LAWS in America while we slept on the American Dream and Reagan and Bushes succeeded in getting right wing supreme court justices that obviously somehow some where in time subscribed to the new American Laws by ALEC.
I'm not a lawyer so I'm not going into detail about their new laws but in brief here's some wiki info:
American Legislative Exchange Council
There are currently eight task forces, addressing a wide variety of public policy issues:
Civil Justice
Commerce, Insurance & Economic Development
Education
Energy, Environment & Agriculture
Health & Human Services
International Relations
Public Safety & Elections
Tax & Fiscal Policy
Telecommunications & Information Technology
Notice how all of these issues are under attack in D.C. and many Red States with repug governors.
ALEC has approximately three hundred private sector members including corporations, state and national think tanks, and trade associations. Some corporations and trade groups that have supported ALEC include: American Nuclear Energy Council, American Petroleum Institute, Coors Brewing Company, Texaco, Pharmaceutical Research & Manufacturers of America, Philip Morris, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco, VISA, Exxon Mobil, the National Rifle Association, Amway, and others.
Groups critical of ALEC claim that the organization is controlled by the entities that fund it, subsequently promoting donors' agendas and goals, along with attempting to advance legislation which favors their interests.[11] NPR reported that the Corrections Corporation of America was present at meetings when legislators were introduced to model immigration laws, used for example as the template for Arizona SB 1070, passed in 2010.[12] The report suggested that the group could be used to avoid state laws requiring legislators to disclose meetings with and gifts from politically unpopular corporations.[13] Shortly after the report was published, ALEC released a response statement addressing some of NPR's accusations.[14]
People for the American Way, the progressive advocacy group, refers to ALEC as "a right-wing public policy organization with strong ties to major corporations, trade associations and right-wing politicians" with an agenda that includes "challenging government restrictions on corporate pollution, limiting government regulations of commerce, privatizing public services, and representing the interests of the corporations that make up its supporters."
DAMN knowledge of this stuff sure is a patriotic DOWNER. We the average citizen, have no idea what the new laws are or mean for us other than we are so FUCKED.
We either need to MAKE OUR OWN NEW LAWS or find a new way to make the next BOUGHT election work for us!
I am stymied at where any of us go from here.