Free Speech for People

Is it ridiculous to think we could pass a constitutional amendment stating that corporations are not people, under the law? (Arlen Specter doesn't seem to think so... see his tweet on the topic.)

Or was it ridiculous that corporations came to be considered people in the first place?




Blogger Mel at Henkimaa points out that if corporations were people, they'd be psychopaths. And she urges everyone to see the 2003 Canadian documentary The Corporation, which essentially made that point with many examples to back it up.

More on this:

• Constitutional Amendment Considered in Response to Supreme Court Decision on Campaign Finance on the Huffington Post
• FreeSpeechForPeople.org (a collaboration of Public Citizen and Voter Action, makers of the above video)
• An earlier post of mine on Stephen Colbert's withering critique of corporations as people