Rob Kall OpEdNews.Com

The reason the Don't Call program has been so successful is people don't like getting interrupted when they are taking a nap, or having a rare family dinner when everyone's home from college and soccer practice and all together in a special family moment, or making love or just enjoying a peaceful moment.

Corporations don't have family moments. They don't make love (though they often screw customers) and they don't have peaceful moments (they call them downturns) Corporations generally plug callers into voicemail and process them using automation.

The reason the judge threw out the rights of 50 million plus US citizens is because he treated corporations as though they deserve to be given the same rights that human have. And the fact is, because of an initial fraudulent act by a supreme court clerk, about 120 years ago,  and because of subsequent assumptions based on that act, the Supreme Court has, through precedent, given corporations the right to be treated as persons. 

Now, we have a situation where 50 million human persons are being annoyed and deprived of their wishes for peace by a handful of obnoxious corporations that are taking advantage of the right of personhood.

There has not been a previous time when so many people have been so clearly slapped in the face with the corporate personhood fraud. It is time to rouse the 50 million plus people who signed for the do not call program and get them to demand that the congress act immediately to do whatever it takes to clearly strip corporations of any personhood rights.

There will be howling and lobbying and huge lobbyist budgets expended by corporations. But if the 50 million people who signed on can be activated, then nothing will stop this train from leaving the station.

This may be our last chance. Big corporations are human eating, killing, destroying monsters-- inventions that have gone out of control. No. I am not anti business. I've most of my adult life IN BUSINESS. Small businesses are just fine. They're the lifeblood of America and capitalism and democracy. But the big ones morph into mindless, heartless monsters that don't care and that are actually required to only worry about money.

It is time to take away their personhood rights. Now.

To learn more on corporate personhood read Thom Hartmann's book, Unequal Protection.

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