The Supreme Court’s decision to allow corporations to spend unlimited amounts of money on their free speech is based on the fear that if the American public is not continually distracted they might just figure out who is really fooling them.

It’s not as if finance, insurance, real estate (FIRE) and military weapons manufacturers and contractors (let’s call them “ARMs“) didn’t already have politicians of both major parties already bought and paid for. Lets call these corporate-finance-security special-interests “FIRE-ARMs” for short.

It’s not as if Congress could make a move without the direct orders and final approval of the armies of lobbyists working for FIRE-ARMs and who actually write the legislation for them.

It’s not as if the President could actually exert leadership…well, he could, really, if he ever recovers from his bipartisan swoon and connects with people instead of banksters. He is showing signs of an attempt at economic regulation of our casino-like financial system---that‘s got to be making the fat cats jumpy.

But it’s not as if the wealthy---who already own more than the rest of us put together---don’t have enough money. Although they never do seem to feel as if they have enough.

It’s not as if the Healthcare industry and insurance companies haven’t already revealed, by the gutted and dismembered health care bill their lobbyists allowed to rattle around in Congress and go to its preordained death in the Senate, that they don’t care if the people live or die.

It’s not as if FIRE-ARMs doesn’t already have control over virtually the entire “He said, She said-news“ media. Why, they even have their own network: FOX news is nothing more than a mass of dark-matter conservative commentary that has, embedded within it, a few visible strands of galaxies of cherry-picked “news,” with black holes at the cores of those galaxies sucking up most of the facts but spewing forth “jets” of heated gas moving at near light-speed.

It’s not as if the U.S. “Offense” Department isn’t already wasting enough taxpayer dollars on highly profitable space-age weaponry to hunt down men in caves. It’s not as if the “defense” industries don’t already have plans for even more complex and expensive “robo-weapons” to fight the wars of the future. That’s right, the next generation of drones and missiles will not even have Humans in minimal control---the weapons themselves will be programmed to keep on killing, using internal software---just in case the video-game kids now joggling the joysticks and pushing the “kill” buttons from thousands of miles away lose the connections to their remote weaponry.

It’s not as if any other groups will have enough money to counterbalance the blaring FIRE-ARMs corporate noise machine. The unions and all those other groups----who are also supposed to benefit from the Supreme Court ruling---just don’t have the members with the jobs anymore to provide the money to argue against the propaganda factories of the rich corporations.

No, the Supreme Court didn’t approve unlimited corporate free speech because FIRE-ARMs wasn’t already in control of virtually all significant technological, media-tainment, political, social and “security” mechanisms---with a greedy, privatized prison industry building cages to house domestic dissidents. FIRE-ARMs basically already has what it needs to get what it wants.

There is no danger posed to FIRE-ARMs by our so-called “moral leadership”---those hypocrites who prattle on about sexual indiscretions while ignoring economy-destroying, world-class thievery and extortion; who rant about the “murder” of fetuses while remaining virtually silent about the mass-murder of fully-formed Human beings; who claim “absolute moral authority“ while content to simply scavenge the wretched soul-survivors kicked loose by the depredations of FIRE-ARMs. It’s not like religion has any real will, power, authority or moral backbone to actually stand up to FIRE-ARMs. In fact, many religionists have basically joined in as chaplains and cheerleaders for the money-changers and war-mongers.

It’s not as if FIRE-ARMs doesn’t already control the U.S. Supreme Court---although I’m sure they wouldn’t mind tipping future Presidential elections so they wind up with all conservative judges instead of just a 5-4 majority.

It’s not as if the American public is actually in any danger whatsoever of waking up… No, wait! The real reason the U.S. Supreme Court has handed over the last vestige of serious and significant mass-media free speech to their corporate sponsors is precisely because the American public may be showing just a glimmer of conscious awareness. I’ll say this for the Tea-Bagger movement: They may be orchestrated by right-wing bloggers and the echo-chamber of right-wing talk shows---all heavily funded by shadowy right-wing donors. And the Tea Baggers may be angry about things that are actually to their benefit---such as decent health care. But at least they are willing to express that anger in person and in public---unlike many of the liberal, progressive, moderate and independent ninnies. And that monster the right has created is making FIRE-ARMs and their political and judicial flunkeys real nervous.

It also looks as if those Americans who were “downsized” from “near-poor” status (middle class) by losing jobs, homes, bank accounts, pensions and health insurance to globalization, financial speculation, shady housing loans and credit card-interest-loan scams---are beginning to figure out who really reamed them.

It looks like down-sized, outsourced Americans are finally beginning to have a glimmer of awareness that the government has been weakened, gutted, bankrupted and taken over by FIRE and the war-machine of ARMs. And that the concept of “government” is now merely a façade---a scarecrow and scapegoat for acts instigated by FIRE-ARMs.

The U.S. Supreme Court---just as it preemptively halted an election process to install their corporate puppet, George W. Bush---has now conducted a preemptive ruling to monopolize the last remnant of possible information sources which their FIRE-ARMs sponsors can use to bombard an already stupefied audience into further forgetfulness. It’s just in case the U.S. public, in all its dim glory, finally realizes that political campaign funding must be freed from the tentacles of corporate money.

Just in case the public manages, somehow, to get the laws passed to level the playing field, even the odds and take way the evil campaign finance money that smothers every worthwhile reform in the crib.

Just in case the public somehow forces public funding of elections to become the law of the land---presuming the Supreme Court doesn‘t overturn that as well. Just in case the public wants to have a shot at voting for actual, honest political candidates minimally tainted by corruption and incompetence and not beholden to FIRE-ARMs.

Just in case the sluggards wake up, the U.S. Supreme Court has made certain that, among all the mindless garbage on TV and the less significant media sources, it will all be overwhelmed by mega-garbage funded by the very interests that have already stupefied Americans with hate-talk dressed up as journalism; the distractions of “reality shows” and celebrity muck; and “free market” mumbo-jumbo. The Supreme Court doesn‘t want Americans to know who it really was that has drowned us in a sea of corruption and incompetence; who really instigated the wars that have made America a force of terror and evil; who really profits from the cancerous resource “development” that has set into motion the destruction of the climate of the very Planet itself; and who is really paying for the propaganda that has been playing to our base fears and lowest desires.

The Supreme Court has approved a preemptive strike to unleash unlimited corporate propaganda---and it‘s just in case the ignorant wake up knowledgeable one morning; just in case the baffled and bewildered figure out that all the stuff they were told so sincerely and believed so hard is just smoke blown by the corporate gnomes. Just in case the public realizes that all those “free market” crooks are highly-subsidized socialists who depend on getting bailed out by the capitalist peasant taxpayers whenever they screw up.

The Supreme Court ruling was a preemptive strike. Just in case the clods ever figure out what “going rogue” really means; what competence and integrity really mean; what true reform and effective regulation really mean; and what rebellion and revolution really mean.

The Supreme Court has acted preemptively just in case the citizens of the occupied States of America realize they have already been taken over. In military terms, FIRE-ARMs has incited the various factions to fight among themselves in a civil war; is “digging in;” is “setting up a perimeter;” is “establishing security;” and is propping up a puppet government right here in the Good Old U.S. of A.

Just in case Americans ever figure out that their rights---and their very lives---can now be taken away by the State simply because of the nature of the crimes of which they are merely “suspected.” Just in case Americans ever figure out that their government---which they supposedly mistrust---can holler “terrorist” and get them to advocate for immediately rubbing out the alleged terrorist. No questions asked.

Just as the President can sentence Afghanis or Iraqis to death by assassination; simply based on suspicions and without legal due process; President Obama now claims the right for himself (and all subsequent Presidents) to literally assassinate American citizens they deem “dangerous”---even in their sleep, in their homes and along with their families. “The director of U.S. national intelligence told the House Intelligence Committee the government has the right to kill Americans abroad,” (Top 10 Problems With America Assassinating Americans by David Swanson, Feb 5, 2010).

And you thought eavesdropping on your Email conversations without a court order was a violation of our Constitutional rights! Now our President---and any SOB or B who comes after him---can be the judge, jury and executioner of American citizens under the illegal “War Exception“ privilege now claimed. A “War” which, by the way, is officially undeclared, but has been declared “eternal.” It’s the institutionalization of what is called “the lynch mob mentality.”

The truth is that not all the people we have accused of being “terrorists”---foreigners or Americans---actually turned out to be terrorists. Therefore, we need to go back to the rule of law instead of the rule of the lynch mob and the rule of “shoot first and ask questions too late.”

The Supreme Court pro-corporate ruling is a preemptive strike---just in case the Nation comes alert to the fact that the “government” is now just a proxy for FIRE-ARMs and that the bad, stupid and incompetent things the “government“ does are really acts of the Corporate State, for the Corporate State and by the Corporate State. “Bipartisan” is bull---it’s all done for the Corporate State. Bipartisan is just a political cover so the Corporate Democrats can semi-gracefully cave in to the wishes of Corporate Conservatives.

The Supreme Court has acted just in case the Nation comes intellectually alive. Just in case the Nation comes to its senses. Just in case we awaken from our extended period of somnambulism. Just in case we come out of our ideological trance.

Just in case Americans wake up to the fact that we, as a people, can unite and force our government to cast off it’s corporate yoke and respond once more to the needs of everyday citizens.

And just in case the people of America realize that other people---of other colors and other religions and other cultures and other economic conditions and other Nations also have souls. Just in case Americans finally figure out that corporations and their profits do not have souls. Or the right to purchase unlimited free speech with blood money.

Rudy Wittshirk