The Supreme Court Kowtows to the Dictator: Civil Rights and Capitalism Take it on the Chin

The decisions of the Supreme Court today are notification to the rest of the country that individual rights, and fairness in business, have no place in America. The Supreme Court has shown today that price fixing and racial segregation can now be protected by the highest court in the land. Black children will now attend black schools and the historic 1954 decision in Brown vs. Board of Education that outlawed segregation in public schools, is now sitting on top of the dustbin of history. It was a noble attempt at justice and equality for all, but today it is no longer the law of the land and Americans can now look to the past to see what the future holds.

Capitalism, the system that Republicans “revere�, took it on the chin today also, with the ruling that “price fixing� does not constitute a violation of the 96-year-old rule that resale price maintenance agreements were an automatic part of the Sherman Antitrust Act. The Supreme Court no longer believes that the market should set its own prices and that an arbitrary price set by manufacturers should be the law of the land. Personally, I don't see where that is going to help the people of the United States or the manufacturers. If an item has an artificially fixed price that discounters cannot break, the items that are in question will end up sitting on shelves, overpriced. Regardless of the courts mandating a bottom line, if the item will not sell above the fixed price, stopping discounters from selling it at a lower price will not be in anyone's interest.