To kill a Corporation should be murder

[Nick at Noon]

Has anybody been watching these CEOs being grilled by Congress ?
Maybe not so much "grilled" -- as buttered up and warmed over gently. A guy named Richard Fuld, CEO of Lehman Brothers was explaining yesterday why it was his company went under but he managed to keep the $480 million dollars he had acquired from Corporation over the past eight years.

We need Congress to pass a new law. Resolved -- any person holding an executive office in a publicly held United States chartered Corporation shall be subject to the charge of murder should their company bankrupt. This is keeping with the US Supreme Court theory that a Corporation is a person. And therefore entitled to all the rights of any other citizen. Among those rights being life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. To kill a Corporation should carry the same penalty as killing any other American.

Hopefully death. But if that seems too extreme -- then at least the forfeiture of all assets both real and personal that is owned by the said executive and their spouse and children. In this country and abroad.

[Jackpine Radical]

1. How 'bout justifiable corporicide?

[kestrel91316]

2. WRONG. One of the worst things to ever happen in western civilization

was adopting the concept of "corporate personhood".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood_debate

".....Opponents of "corporate personhood" believe that large corporations as juristic persons have enjoyed certain constitutional rights intended for natural humans as the result of a misinterpretation of an 1886 Supreme Court Case, Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad. Opponents claim that certain rights of natural persons, such as the right to political and other non-commercial free speech, are now exercised by corporations to the detriment of the American democratic process as provided under the Constitution. Some opponents point to the recent discovery of correspondence <1> between then Supreme Court Chief Justice Morrison R. Waite, and court reporter J.C. Bancroft Davis as proof of a conspiracy among the railroad corporations to intentionally create a misrepresentation of that decision for the benefit of the railroads....."

[ProgressiveFool]

3. Agreed

Corporations being granted "personhood" and most importantly the right to Free Speech is what keeps all the money in politics.

[shadowknows69]

4. To kill jobs should be murder

Because people who lose their livelihood or their chosen career die a bit on the inside. Some die soon after for real too.