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By Josey Wales

This is Hidden camera footage of what seems to be Supreme Court proceedings from earlier this week surfaced on Thursday, offering one the of the first public recordings of the High Court’s proceedings.

This video posted on YouTube appears to show the proceedings leading up to and during a rare protest that took place in the court Wednesday, in which a man called on the justices to overturn the 2010 Citizens United ruling that opened the door to corporate political donations and led to the creation of Super-PACs.  

Corporations run the political system in America, this is what gives them their power.

According to thehill blog.

The high court does not allow the media or the public to enter the chamber with electronic recording devices, video or otherwise. 

While it does grant access to the public and releases delayed audio recordings of oral arguments, it has resisted calls to allow cameras inside.

“I rise on behalf of the vast majority of American people who believe that money is not speech, corporations are not people and our democracy should not be for sale to the highest bidder,” the protester shouted in Wednesday’s oral arguments. “Overturn Citizens United. Keep the cap on McCutcheon.”  

Numerous media organizations have identified the individual who was subsequently arrested as Noah Kai Newkirk. He has been arrested for a number of past protests as well. A group called 99 Rise has taken responsibility for the outburst. The group did not respond to a request for comment about the video. 

A spokeswoman for the court told The Wall Street Journal it is aware of the video and is in the process of reviewing it and “courtroom screening procedures.”

This is the original case that started it all, “latest wrecking ball flailing around in the rubble of America’s election and campaign finance laws.”

Where does this corporations-are-people business start and stop? Under the law, corporations and humans have long had different standards of responsibility. If corporations are treated as people, so that they are free to spend money in election campaigns and to invoke their religious beliefs to deny a kind of health coverage to their workers, are they to be treated as people in other regards? Corporations are legal entities whose owners are not personally liable for the company’s debts, whereas actual people are liable for their own. Both people and corporations can discharge their debts through bankruptcy, but there are several kinds of bankruptcy, and the conditions placed on people are generally far more onerous than those placed on corporations. If corporations are people, why aren’t they subject to the same bankruptcy laws that people are? Why aren’t the owners liable for corporate debts as people are for their own?
 

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    • scott

      The supreme court never said nor suggested corporations are people. They said corporations are persons. We wail and gnash our teeth thinking we have been violated. We accept the presumption that people are persons. This is maybe the most important ruling ever by this court and we missed it. They have taught us that person-hood is a corporate standing. If we believe persons and people are the same thing, we have no reason to complain for our stupidity. If we don’t take actions to separate ourselves from person-hood we have no reason to whine. Just please whine silently if you do cause the fault lies on us.

      • greenghost

        What on earth are you rambling about?

        Definition of Persons from dictionary ” a human being” “a self concious or rational being”

        Definition of people from dictionay ” persons indefinitely or collectively; persons in general:”
        Definition of person-hood “the state or fact of being a person”
        Yet somehow you claim they are not the same? If I could somehow seperate myself from being human would I really want to try?

        • IAmLonefrog

          your’e doing it wrong! Try using a Law dictionary

        • Andor

          There is the first problem of the USA.
          Human being= self conscious or rational being….??
          Millions does not fall under this then?

      • Shaun

        It is true what Scott said. You have to use a Black’s Law dictionary to comprehend their law! People also need to comprehend that the “Democracy” is an “ALL CAPS CORPORATE DEMOCRACY”!!! We are NOT a DEMOCRACY…We are a Living Republic!!!

    • Paveway IV

      So these are the bastards that have been handing out our individual rights to corporations? No wonder they want to keep everything all secret. Sorry, but after Amerimaidan, they will be unemployed, stripped of their possessions and panhandling on the train for booze money.

    • rev

      Thank you brave cameraman/woman!
      If anything should be filmed 24/7, it should be the activities of the Supreme Court.
      That they dragged the speaker out is no surprise, but only attests to the sham of government.

    • AJjj100

      The main problem in America is we have a government full of criminal minds!

    • Homeowner Of Record

      I have been writing about the complete & absolute corruption in the court system on BIN from the county level up for several months. The courts do not want accountability, evidence of their crimes, or of their intentional bias without regard for legality, thus no cameras or microphones in the courtrooms except for the dog/pony shows like OJ’s Trial & hyped up reality tv Judges to make the public think we are accountable to them & have to follow their BS commands. It is not justice…IT IS CONTROL.

      We have been royally screwed by our bogus system of justice. My case alone proved that. That is why America is being made homeless overnight & that we have the highest incarceration of any half dozen countries in the world combined. The courts are a For Profit System. They follow the money, not the laws & certainly not justice.

    • manufactured2012

      everything seems to be “relevant”

      But never forget this

      “if you see any oppression of the poor and a violation of justice and righteousness in your district, do not be surprised about the matter. For that high official is being watched by one who is higher than he is, and there are others who are still higher than them” (Ecclesiastes 5:8)

      • manufactured2012

        PS… that was a brave young lad.

        Yes… you were noticed

      • ecclesiatical

        “Blessed are the meek,for they shall inherit the earth” Matthew 5:5, Amen.

        • equal eyes

          Really?

    • Lady Liberty

      All decked out in their black robes of Saturn. They have no authority over a truly sovereign human being. Just a big scam perpetrated on humanity. :wink:

      • John

        @ Liberty Lady See this is why people say the horrible things about the intelligence of the average American…its SATIN not Saturn…Saturn is a planet and satin is the cloth…but I think you will find they don’t wear SATIN but rather its more expensive counterpart called SILK. Easier for you as only 4 letters now instead the six you originally thought.
        You all seem to have an opinion and the right to free speech and the need to exercise it and yet what comes out off your mouths (sometimes) seems laughable to the world.

        • ecclesiatical

          (@ Liberty Lady See this is why people say the horrible things about the intelligence of the average American),no that is not why ,they say horrible things about the intelligence of the average American because of persons like you who try to ridicule others who are not as literate as you.
          “It is not what goes into the mouth of a man that makes him unclean and defiled,but
          what comes out of the mouth; this makes a man unclean and defiles [him].Matthew 15:11

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