I’d like to buy your opinion.

The United States Court of Appeals yesterday just took a bit of your liberty and freedom away. Not Obama. Not the Democrats or Republicans. But the Judges who were sworn in to uphold the Constitution and to protect us, the citizens, blew a big decision. the outcome could become sinisterly dark.

Here’s how it came down.

Congress passed a law that required campaign contributions become more transparent. That means we know more about who gives to certain funds that place all those “issue” ads. Then the Federal Election Commission, made a misstep in an administrative ruling that clouded the matter up. So the court jumped in and made it down right murky.

The court said that Congresses intent was NOT to make the contributors more transparent. Really?  And how the hell did those appellate judges know that? The law was all about making election donations more open and less secretive. Members of Congress on both sides of the aisle said so. But they made a slight boo-boo. They gave the Federal Election Commission the job of overseeing how this was to be down. So the FEC passed a series of administrative edicts, one of which ran counter to the original law and a loophole was born. (Don’t you love how your government works?)

So the court, rather than remedying the situation, made it more confusing by sending the whole matter back to the trial court with a admonition that it was not to fix the problem but to settle the dispute. The loophole stands. Your freedoms are again pushed back by big business with big dollars to spend trying to control the hearts and minds of the citizens of this country; and the court has once again joined in the fray. The courts of the People by the People has once again become the problem of the People.

First it was Citizen’s United. Now this. Has anybody wearing a black robe actually read the constitution recently? We can’t be a democracy if we allow the electoral process to be bought and sold by the highest bidder. We will lose the very freedoms that made us great. We need a court to take a stand on the principal of the issue here, not hide behind the intent of the document. Intent can be used in the wrong way in the wrong hands, regardless, which party your support. It will turn around and bite you in the backside.

The principals behind our form of government and the constitution that establishes this government, is very clear. We are a government of the people, by the people and for the people. The word corporation never appears in the writ. And no, I do not believe corporations are people. They are made up of people, but their role in society is to make money and create jobs. They are creations of paper and ink not flesh and blood. They don’t get a vote. And they shouldn’t have a voice. Unfortunately right now they are buying votes and their voice is about all we can hear.

Let this same issue happen against a cause on the RIGHT, and ever talk-show host, every conservative newspaper columnist and every right –wing pundit in the land would be red in the face yelling that the commies are taking away our liberties. And you know what? Other than the commie part, they would be right

Wake up America, this drain on your freedoms, this corralling of liberty, this ability to hide the source of paid-for voices in our land is going to make us weaker and weaker as a nation.  Print this column and store it away and see if I am not right. I hope somebody takes a stand against this foolishness and the need to hold on to my words will not be needed.

Get big dollars out of the dark and let us see who is behind the barrage of messages. And then, somebody, anybody, stand up to the Daddy War Bucks and pass some real laws that curtail spending on our freedom of one person-one vote.

These are my words.

I stand by them.

My names is John Crawley.

How’s that for transparency?