{}coin: good enough for election politics?

[James A. Donald]

James A. Donald:
 >> Corporations are people.

rysiek wrote:
 > No. They are *made of* people. This is not the same thing.

Is the same thing in any case that matters, such as freedom of speech,
search without reasonable cause, and so on and so forth.

 >> If you grant lesser rights to corporations than to natural people,
 >> then the state can, and will, make corporations fire anyone
 >> suspected of thinking politically incorrect thoughts.

 > What? I call bull.

Happens every day.


 > First of all, it's not the corporation's decision, it's a decision
 > made always by *some person*.

But that person is not an officer of the corporation, but an employee
of the government.

 > You don't have to give corporations these rights, as people that
 > corporations consist of already have them.

That is backwards from reality.  People that corporations consist of
lose these rights, such as freedom of speech, because the government
violates the rights of the corporation.