Kill A Company, Face Murder Charges: The Fair Consequence Of Corporate Personhood

[Joanne98]

Today's Supreme Court decision in Citizens United, led by corporate enthusiast and Bush appointee Chief Justice John Roberts has fully removed the previous restrictions on corporate speech in political contexts. Arguing that corporate personhood is a legitimate, non-metaphorical construct that calls for the protection of its "free speech" rights, Roberts's majority opinion is a terminal watershed in a thirty-year trend of confusing the country's capitalist economic system for its social framework.

Already deeply corrupted at every level by influence of private interests, with this decision, the entire political and electoral communications process will be placed directly in the manicured hands of big business. The millions of corporate dollars that once stood between you and your government will be fondly remembered after they are replaced by billions of corporate dollars.

Yet, as one door closes, another opens.

Now that the personhood of corporations has been sustained, expanded and leveraged by Supreme Court right-wing activists, what are other ramifications?

Shouldn't it follow that when a corporation is bankrupted -- killed -- by its reckless management that its executives could be found guilty of the capital crime of murder?

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rob-warmowski/corporate-murder-charges_b_432633.html

[xchrom]

1. God knows that is a trial I would love to see.

With Spitzer as the prosecutor.

[ClassWarrior]

2. Hell, since we still have capital punishment, I say any time a corporation kills a person...

...the corporation faces the death penalty.

NGU.

[shirlden]

3. What about human trafficking??

These people/corps buy and sell each other. Sometimes they merge without benefit of clergy or a marriage license. They chop off arms and sell them on the open market..........WTF

Who will be the first to initiate a law suit to test this SCOTUS miscarriage?

[billh58]

4. One of the primary

reasons for incorporating a business, is to escape personal liability should the business be sued, or go bankrupt. It now appears that corporate officers can have their cake, and eat it too.

[winyanstaz]

5. Well then a few ceos will be in prison for attempted murder soon ..

won't they??