Saturday, July 17, 2010

Schools Matter: If Corporations are Persons, Why Aren't They Being Tried for Treason?

Schools Matter: If Corporations are Persons, Why Aren't They Being Tried for Treason?

If Corporations are Persons, Why Aren't They Being Tried for Treason?

Any other person would be locked up who so actively works to overthrow democracy and replace it with a fascist oligarchy.

Interesting piece at HuffPo (ht to Susan Harman, who is recovering from police exuberance in Oakland last week following the involuntary manslaughter conviction of transit cop who murdered a young black man there):

On Monday, two brothers from Minnesota, Robin and Laird Monahan, made a detour to Denver on their cross-country walk to encourage people to reclaim democracy and restore the citizen sovereignty that has been displaced by the "corporate stranglehold on all three branches of U.S. government."
The Monahans' trip was prompted by the January U.S. Supreme Court decision (Citizens United v. the Federal Election Commission) reinforcing the supremacy of corporate rights of "personhood" under the Bill of Rights, as well as endorsement of unlimited corporate spending on elections.