Maine lawmakers think corporations have rights

The minions of the GOP/DLC oligopoly have long wanted corporations to be considered people. But dammit, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison spoiled it for them with all that Bill of Rights business that only protects human rights, not corporate rights.

Nonetheless, Maine legislators remain undeterred!

Recently, Democratic Rep. Alan Casavant offered a sensible bill that would have let cities and towns adopt laws that would bar corporations from being considered people.

But because lawmakers have corporations swimming around in their pockets and caressing their naughty bits, this bill didn't pass. Indeed, the Maine House voted 124 to 23 to reject the bill. Sounds like the Kentucky legislature, doesn't it?

Rep. Stephen Beaudette adopted the DLC party line. "This is so obviously unconstitutional," he said of the bill.

Uh, no. Corporations have no constitutional rights. None.

Corporations being considered people goes against everything a democratic republic is all about. If anything should be considered unconstitutional, it's corporate personhood.

America has become a corporate fiefdom. Not only are corporations given rights that are supposed to be accorded to people. Now that corporations can influence a city to seize residential neighborhoods to be turned over for private development, corporations are actually given more rights than people.

I think it's time for a constitutional amendment to strip corporate personhood. Then maybe we can clear up the constitutional questions for good.

(Source: http://www.sunjournal.com/story/318079-3/MaineNews/Maine_House_votes_down_denial_of_corporate_rights;
http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/newsupdate.php?updates/maine-house-votes-down-corporations-bill)