Forum Post: On Corporate Personhood
Posted 12 years ago on Oct. 31, 2011, 1:49 a.m. EST by DemocracyInAction
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from Detroit, MI
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Understanding how the legal system legitimizes and supports corporate personhood is very relevant to the Occupy movement because it reveals some of the legal (and even constitutional!) justifications that support and protect the way that corporations influence, fund, and direct politics today...so that the laws serve corporate interests, not the people's interests.
Please read Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. This recent U.S. Supreme Court decision is very significant for the development of corporate law and corporate political involvement.
http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/09pdf/08-205.pdf
Please read and share your thoughts. I think legal reform of "corporate personhood" is critical, and I would love to hear from anyone who has more information, advice, or ideas about how we can reform this area of corporate law so that democratic ideals are better protected for all of us REAL people out there.
Peace and love all. May you keep your heads up and continue to follow your heart. We are the people. This is not our private problem. Public policy favors corporate interests, and it is up to us to democratically and peacefully mobilize so that we can reform the present policies and political practices. We are the people, we are the voice, we ARE being heard. It's all about peaceful perseverance. Peace and love to all of you who believe in participatory democracy and the power of the people.
You may want to look at a thread I posted yesterday entitled, "A Buffett Approach to Ending Corporate Control of our Government," or something like that.
thank you, i will try to find it.
Corporations are people too. In fact, one is running for congress.
http://murrayhillincforcongress.com/
that does not refute anything i posted above; it only reaffirms my position on the need to reform the legal classification of corporations as persons.
No, I agree with your remarks. You need to read about Murray Hill. It is a mock corporation and a joke meant to highlight the crime of Citizens United.
It is running for Congress under the premise that, since corporations already control politicians, they might as well eliminate the middlemen and run for Congress themselves.
sounds efficient to me. ;-)