Occupy protesters will take to the courts again, Friday, Jan. 20 from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. at the Federal Courthouse located at 1 N. Palafox St. Over 80 courthouses, including the Federal Courthouse in Pensacola and the Supreme Court will be protest spots.
Jan. 20 is one day before the second anniversary of the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision in which the Supreme Court ruled that corporations are persons, entitled by the U.S. Constitution to buy elections and run the government.
Protesters believe corporations are not persons and possess only the privileges citizens and their elected representatives grant them.
“Organizers of Occupy the Courts propose a Constitutional Amendment that will overturn the Court-created legal doctrines of corporate personhood and ‘Money Equals Speech,’” said the press release.
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I don’t quite recall reading in that particular ruling that the Court ruled that corporations could buy elections or run the government…although, it would seem from your entry that you believe this to be true. If I am following your logic then you believe that corporations should be subject to the law of the land and pay taxes, but should not have any ability to interact with the political process. Corporate taxes fund schools, although they have no children in school, they fund…well. you know where this is going.
Taxation without representation..I think I’ve heard that phrase somewhere before – didn’t someone once start a revolution about that very concept ?