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Originally Posted by 12clicks
Odd then that OWS is protesting for none of this
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That is where you are wrong... corporations weren't "endowed by their Creator [God]". Corporations are not people... they are business entities and should not be afforded the same protection as a citizen under the constitution. It only serves one purpose... to corrupt the political process for the purpose of profit. In my opinion, there is a parallel between the oppression of corporate control of our government against the people and the control of the king of England at the time that the Declaration of Independence was signed.
The SCOTUS treating them as people gives the people who control them an extra voice in the political process. Corporations don't take a shareholder vote to see which candidates to support OR which lobbyists to pay. Shareholders get their own vote and donation limit... why do they need an extra avenue to express that political opinion? Corporations should have no influence on the Democratic process... it's "We the People"... not "We the People and the wealthy who can control the political process through the capital power of their corporations".