People are people and corporations aren't, goes the argument of those who favor an amendment to the Constitution taking all Constitutional liberties away from corporations.
The counter argument, of course, is that corporations are made up of people. One Facebook poster countered the counter argument, suggesting to me that you could take all the people out of a corporation, and the corporation would still exist on paper.
If they are wanting to take away freedom of speech and freedom of religion from the pieces of paper that make up corporations, why? They know the pieces of paper cannot talk or write. If they seek to take away the civil rights from the paper that makes up the corporation, that paper cannot do any harm, cannot speak. Why, then, have the amendment in the first place?
I do not believe it when I am told the proposed amendment would not take away civil liberties from the people who compose the corporations. You cannot take away the liberties of the corporation without taking away the liberties of the component parts of that corporation -- and that is people.
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