http://www.opednews.com/articles/Amend-the-US-Constitution-by-Radh-Achuthan-100317-872.htmlWe confront losses while we are simply coping within our skins with daily chores; today, almost two billion porous minds selectively associate on the Internet, and some would engage and organize consciousness therein at an inclusive, comprehensive level to challenge the problems that come our way...
The recent US Supreme Court Ruling Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission made provision for unlimited corporate funding of federal campaigns, and extended additional First Amendment political rights to corporations, encroaching on the social and political 'person hood' reserved for human beings.
The Ruling calls for a principled non-violent stand from the American Public on the implied devaluation of human status in the controlling documents of USA that would eventually affect all human beings.
Comment:
The US Supreme Court is the final arbiter of the US Constitution as it stands at any given time.
As social and political personhood is reserved for the natural human entity to be exercised during his/her brief, spiritual, variable capacity lifetime, with 'artificial collectives' (secular or otherwise) playing a supportive role, the above inventive 5-4 judicial ruling leads to alienation of human beings; a setback for current human existence and its potential.
Was personhood meant for human creations such as 'corporations' that are designed in haste and have evolved over a few centuries to have continual rejuvenation and the provision for perpetual existence?
The ruling dilutes the comprehensive political assignment granted with protections to the person by the US Constitution to formulate and guide the future of local human society (in the global village), as it enables competition and incursion by 'non-human' corporations over human futures.
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