BRAVO ! GO BURNABY ! A fine representation of youth fighting for a saner way of loving the planet, our life support system. Who ever made a corporation a person should be charged with crimes against humanity .... the states of course . Nothing more than legal fiction, not reality. QUOTE Wikipedia Corporations as persons in the United States As a matter of interpretation of the word person in the Fourteenth Amendment, U.S. courts have extended certain constitutional protections to corporations. Opponents of corporate personhood seek to amend the U.S. Constitution to limit these rights to those provided by state law and state constitutions.[4][5] The basis for allowing corporations to assert protection under the U.S. Constitution is that they are organizations of people, and the people should not be deprived of their constitutional rights when they act collectively.[6] In this view, treating corporations as persons is a convenient legal fiction which allows corporations to sue and to be sued, provides a single entity for easier taxation and regulation, simplifies complex transactions that would otherwise involve, in the case of large corporations, thousands of people, and protects the individual rights of the shareholders as well as the right of association. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood
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