In a sense, every action is speech, because every action conveys some of the ideas of the actor. It’s a question of what sort of non-speech components an action can have before it stops being purely speech and you can start regulating those actions as a consequence of those other consequences.

Despite all the hysterical handwringing from the usual suspects, Citizens United was not about “contributions” at all, so whether we have public financing or not wouldn’t change the fact that Citizens United could air their film. The case was solely about independent expenditures, not contributions.

Retrospectively, it was all so simple, natural and matter of fact being on a boat restaurant in Belgrade, sitting with, laughing, drinking a two hundred bottle of wine and chatting about war and peace while Ratko Mladic held my hand. Mladic, a man considered the world’s most ruthless war criminal since Adolf Hitler, still at large and currently having a five million dollar bounty on his head for genocide by the international community. Yet there I was with my two best friends at the time, a former Serbian diplomat, his wife, and Ratko Mladic just chilling. There was no security, nothing you’d ordinarily expect in such circumstances. Referring to himself merely as, Sharko; this is the story of it all came about.

http://sites.google.com/site/jillstarrsite/what-it-s-like-to-chill-out-with-whom-the-rest-of-the-world-considers-as-the-most-ruthless-men-in-the-world-ratko-mladic-and-radovan-karadzic-confessions-of-a-female-war-crimes-investigator
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In this case, I don’t believe all inputs are equal, since we are talking about rights of US citizens under our Constitution.

As far as it not being clear yet, what would prevent it with the current state of play?

I don’t pretend to know enough to say if this is a real problem or not, but I find it troubling and would like to read more about it.