Corporate persons

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Permalink Reply by Loren Miller on September 30, 2012 at 1:10pm

Somebody cue John Stewart!

Permalink Reply by Ruth Anthony-Gardner on September 30, 2012 at 5:31pm

Permalink Reply by Steph S. on October 4, 2012 at 6:58pm

another good one

Permalink Reply by Ruth Anthony-Gardner on October 3, 2012 at 5:56pm

Permalink Reply by Steph S. on October 4, 2012 at 6:58pm

Great graphic Ruth!

going to add to my collection

Permalink Reply by Ruth Anthony-Gardner on October 8, 2012 at 3:46pm

Permalink Reply by Ruth Anthony-Gardner on October 11, 2012 at 11:22pm

I don't know what the court decided, but Shell's argument was the height of bald faced hypocrisy.

From EarthRights International:

Corporations claim they’re people when it suits them, to gain exemption from laws they don’t like, such as our campaign finance laws and food-labeling laws. They claim to have “free speech” rights just like people, trumping our democratically enacted public-interest laws.

Now the Shell Oil company is saying the opposite. It’s claiming that a law that's been on our books since 1789 should not apply to it because it's a corporation, not a person.