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Friday, January 22, 2010

Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others

Yesterday the High Court ruled that corporations are people under the law.  Below is an edited version of comments I made on a friends Facebook page sharing my concerns about this ruling.


Now corporations have more rights than human beings. In addition to the rights granted by the High Court in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, they have the right to be immortal. All they have to do is survive. And they do, at all costs to everyone and everything that is not them.

I once argued that corporations should not have the same rights as a person to a corporate lawyer, who walked away when I got the better of him. I'm sure that by doing so, he thought that he had won the argument.  

Here's a truly terrifying notion: If corporations are finally and completely considered to be "persons" under this ruling, that means they can be murdered. What if, through any action taken by an individual, group or corporation, a corporation is put out of business (is murdered)?

Does that mean that it's possible that the "murderer" can be brought to justice? Sentenced to life imprisonment? The dealth penalty? I am not making a joke here. Can't we see Scalia, Thomas, and Alito especially, being favorably disposed to such an interpretation?

Stay tuned Keep those passports ready. As if any other nation will be willing then to take us.

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