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Originally Posted by Aramike
Mookie, please answer this: why do you think it's okay for a union to be able to exercise these rights and not a corporation? Both are merely groups of people...
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When did I say unions should be treated differently?
I don't care if a corporation is a group of people. It matters not. The individual people each have their right to free speech. They don't get to participate again as a member of a collective group. A corporation IS NOT A PERSON. It is an article on paper, a legal fiction. It is not subject to the obligations of an individual in this country, and thus should not enjoy the benefits.
Don't paint this as "Mookie wants to shut people up he doesn't agree with." That is completely dishonest and lends no credit to your argument. I want to reserve the rights for WE THE
PEOPLE of this country. A corporation is NOT A PERSON.
Pragmatically, what good do you think is going to come from giving big business even more say in government? Jefferson saw the problem 200 years ago: “I hope we shall... crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and to bid defiance to the laws of our country." - Thomas Jefferson, letter to George Logan. November 12, 1816
Good lord, these people spent the Bush years twisting the Bill of Rights around so that it didn't apply to people they didn't like. I find it amazing that they now are jumping through hoops to make it apply to non-persons now.