And now we have further proof of the “Occupy Wall Street” movement’s close relationship to the liberal establishment. MoveOn and ACORN have been sponsoring and supporting the encampments, President Obama has said that he supports them and their aims are one of the reasons that he ran for president, SEIU has turned up to support the various camps across the country.
Now a Democrat Congressman from Florida, Theodore Deutch, has offered a constitutional amendment in the House of Representatives that would strip American companies of all protections guaranteed by the Bill of Rights.
The amendment is aimed at curbing the free speech rights afforded third-party groups by the Supreme Court decision Citizens United v. FEC, which was one of the few intelligible demands of the Occupy groups. It was also pretty clear from their spokesmen that they hadn’t much of a clue about the legal case nor its effects.
In spite of the violence, crime, filth and excrement of the squalorous encampments, the left still dreams that the Occupy “movement” is somehow the precursor of a revolution that will bring about the brave new world where the liberal elite can be permanently in charge.
Representative Deutch made specific reference to the protests in a news release, and stated “the days of corporate control of our democracy must end.” Branded with the acronym OCCUPIED, the amendment states:
The rights protected by the Constitution of the United States are the rights of natural persons and do not extend to for-profit corporations, limited liability companies, or other private entities established for business purposes or to promote business interests under the laws of any state, the United States, or any foreign state.
The amendment would not apply just to the First Amendment, but to the entire Constitution. It would therefore remove the protection of the Fourth and Fifth Amendment protections. So the federal government could wiretap company phones without warrants, seize company records or expropriate company property without due process. Granted, the EPA is currently pretending that those protections do not exist.
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