Monday, January 2, 2012
On "corporate personhood"
Montana State Supreme Court Justice James Nelson, on "corporate personhood", as set forth in the 2010 US Supreme Court's "Citizens United" ruling: "Corporations are not persons. Human beings are persons, and it is an affront to the inviolable dignity of our species that courts have created a legal fiction which forces people—human beings—to share fundamental natural rights with soulless creations of government. Worse still, while corporations and human beings share many of the same rights under the law, they clearly are not bound equally to the same codes of good conduct, decency, and morality, and they are not held equally accountable for their sins. Indeed, it is truly ironic that the death penalty and hell are reserved only to natural persons.” No one could say it any better, more forcefully or clearer. Thank you, Justice Nelson. Link: http://www.alternet.org/story/153623/montana_high_court_says_%27citizens_united%27_does_not_apply_in_big_sky_state?page=1
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