re: Money is Freespeech And Corporations Are People

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corporations have been people for as long as there have been corporations.

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Indeed. The precedent is damn important. And the precedent of ending it... would be horrible.

If corporations don't have First Amendment rights... we'd have NO freedom of the press... because most news organizations... are... owned and operated by.... corporations!

Most proponents of stripping away corporation rights have no idea of the consequences of it actually happening.

But if we can strip 1A rights, any constitutional right can be stripped. Corporations would have no rights against search and seizure. Meaning any corporate assets could be searched without cause. The government could arbitrarily seize corporate-owned property without compensation. Corporations would have no right to due process in the courts. How could a corporation have standing in a court if it's not treated as a single-person? Corporations couldn't be sued for negligence or wrongdoing.

Who would want to live in an environment like that?
The result would be third-world dictatorship territory. Only a fool would be a proponent of it.

One has to be completely ignorant to believe that stripping organizations of like minded individuals of basic constitutional rights somehow increases freedom. Total magical thinking.