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Bribery is free speech too. Yet bribery is illegal. So where do we draw the line? Consider the special interest groups today that take this approach: "I'm not c
by thisisnotatest 14y ago
Bribery is free speech too. Yet bribery is illegal. So where do we draw the line? Consider the special interest groups today that take this approach: "I'm not coordinating with the Senator, but I did start spending millions of dollars of attack ads on her opponent as soon as she voted against Cap and Trade on carbon emissions, and after she left Congress I hired her as a 'consultant' paying her a multi-million dollar salary." Currently that's on one side of the line. I think it needs to be on the other side of the line.
- javert 14y agoBribery is not free speech. The right to free speech is simply the right to not be forcefully coerced, as applied to the realm of speech.
- thisisnotatest 14y agoYou didn't address my point. Where do you draw the line? At one point does one's choice of how one allocates one's money go from "free speech" to "Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors"?