Corporate Personhood - The Floodgates were Opened Today

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[nwoebcke]

Umm... you right-wingers (and/or Freepers) are forgeting something: these are MULTINATIONAL corporations! Sure, let's give these FOREIGN corporations our First Amendment rights! What's wrong with that? You blind, stupid, political hacks.

[judyleasugar97]

The super wealthy are buying our lawmakers, plain and simple.

[deafinseattle1]

Personhood? Then they can be sued? Be found guilty of crimes and put in jail? Great!

[paulrprichard]

Ron Paul.

[ngonea]

@dux16 - "It could sieze their property, stifle their speech, envade their privacy, and rifle their books whenever it wanted. It would be the end of American Business as we know it!!!"

everything the defacto gov is doing to the people

[paul8kangas]

We in A.N.S.W.E.R.

are fighting to abolish corporation personhood.

Join us.

[bradchesney11]

The creation of laws is now illegal!

[meadbert]

Corporations obviously have free speech. If not Congress could censor the New York TImes, NBC, You Tube, Church Sermons and what is said on College campuses.

The idea that free speech is an individual right is silly. Speech by nature is between and among associations of people. What does it mean if you have free speech but you can only talk to yourself.

McCain/Feingold was nothing more than a cynical attempt by Congress to ban the criticism of Congress in the run up to elections.

[meadbert]

@nwoebcke

What sort of fascist country only grants free speech to citizens?

Certainly not America!

America allows the same free speech rights for both citizens and foreigners just as each has the same right to not be murdered.

Congress cannot ban "On the Origin of the Species" just because Charles Darwin is a foreigner. I have the right to read that book. If the Chinese Government produces anti-American propaganda congress cannot ban it. I have the right to read that as well.

[dux16]

@nwoebcke You simply dont understand that if corporations were not persons, the government would be free to do whatever it wanted to them. It could sieze their property, stifle their speech, envade their privacy, and rifle their books whenever it wanted. It would be the end of American Business as we know it!!!

[joestauffacher]

People need a financial education, you have to understand how to work in the monetary system that exists in today's world.