The Roberts & Company disaster

While countless Americans continued to reach out in a thousand ways to help the millions of disaster victims in Haiti, a profoundly ugly decision was made in Washington. Yesterday the Supreme Court majority accelerated our country's ongoing falling apart at the seams in an enormous way.

The Court majority that eased George W. Bush into office has now produced a rotten decision that reminds one of the infamous Dred Scott ruling. (That Supreme Court decision--7 to 2, in 1857- ruled that blacks were not protected by the Constitution, could not be citizens and were private property. It's greatest opponent was Abraham Lincoln.)

Yesterday Chief Justice John Roberts and his four comrades on the Court gave free rein to corporations to spend all the mountains of money they want in order to put their own people in power--from congressional seats to city councils. Roberts and Company claim such unfettered corporate spending is "free speech."

What we now clearly have is an unadulterated homeland disaster.