The People's Email Network Last 25 Messages Transmitted Log Go Back Strengthen And Pass The Bill To Mitigate The Supreme Court Corporate Personhood Decision ********** [195334:072010] M.L., Bandon, OR Thhis is truely a disasterous decision. Our country is on the way to being a corporate oligarcy rather than a democracy. ********** [085001:052610] L.F., Delmar, NY Corporate personhood is a scam! End this threat to democracy immediately! ********** [161343:052410] B.L., Seattle, WA I am deeply concerned over the damage that the recent court decision may do. Please pass legislation that will ensure that corporations do not have the same rights and privileges as human beings. ********** [181552:042410] j.e., Silverton, OR Out of Control Corporations have been Destroying this Country for Years Now. It's Time to Finally Reel-Them Back-in to what looks like an American Corporation that Washington and Jefferson had in mind. J.E. Silverton, Oregon. ********** [201629:042210] V.K., Tarzana, CA Please help us undo the harm caused by the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision. In California, we are headed from one governorship into another in which the richest candidate gets to win. It's an uphill battle already for ordinary citizens against multimillionaires like Schwarzenegger and Whitman. Imagine a United States in which candidates seek sponsorships and wear perhaps a Nike swoosh or a Coke logo where they customarily wear a flag pin. With campaigns funded by corporations, there would be no end to the indebtedness elected officials feel to their patrons, and no end to the bad law that would be enacted with such influences. I believe Senators Boxer and Feinstein and Congressman Sherman are with me on this, but I hope they will press their colleagues to take a firm stand with them on behalf of a clear Amendment. ********** [050518:041110] J.S., Watsonville, CA I would like to see a vote of no confidence in the Robert's court over this issue. ********** [100241:033010] D.B., Molalla, OR This issue should never have become an issue in the first place. It was never the intent of the Founding Fathers that any Corporation should have such power over our destiny in this country. It has to be stopped as quickly as possible to prevent the power mongers who have done so much damage to our country from growing even stronger. ********** [175244:032910] L.B., Houston, TX It would be good to prevent foreign corporations from buying our elections and to strengthen the bill against corporate corruption of elections. It would also be good to inform shareholders of corporations of any attempts to bribe politicians. Many of these same corporations feed at the government trough, and they often bribe politicians to do it. ********** [162536:032910] C.S., Boulder Creek, CA Legislation that restricts corporate spending on political campaigns is absolutely necessary if our nation is to be prevented from becoming an undemocratic Corporate State as defined by the implementing father of the Facist Corporate State, Mussolini! ********** [162418:032810] A.M., San Antonio, TX It is incomprehensible that corporations can be considered on the same level as a person. This was a despicable decision and definitely shows big corporations are and will remain in control over the american people. ********** [210042:032610] J.B., Easton, CT We the people does not include corporations. The court is wrong. ********** [122148:032510] W.O., Calistoga, CA To encourage individual responsibility in the democratic process government policy should provide social and economic equity for the American people. This decision assures the acquisition of wealth, however skewed the distribution of wealth may become and however small the number of citizens protected. Hasn't the latest "bust" in our boom and bust cycle of capitalism shown us the results of this much power in too few hands? ********** [140714:032210] S.N., Philadelphia, PA Our government belongs to the people, but this decision puts our elections out there for the highest bidder to take. The slogan is supposed to read, "Power to the people", not "Power to the corporate entity with the largest monetary output." ********** [134122:032110] J.M., Albuquerque, NM Corporations are not now and have never been living , breathing, voting persons. The Supreme Court activist judges who think they can get away with this outrageous perversion of the Constitution must be impeached. ********** [120928:032110] g.v., Point Pleasant Beach, NJ This is the most critical issue we face today. More critical than the economy, health care, the environment or anything else we are focused on. As long as corporations can legally buy elections we never have true reform anywhere. ********** [145442:032010] D.M., Collinsville, IL Corporations have far too much influence over our government at all levels. Also, they are increasingly controlling our educational system as well. This is unacceptable in a free democratic society and must be stopped and reversed. ********** [140711:031810] L.F., Philadelphia, PA These proposals are the barest no-brainers for confronting the (media-ignored) Constitutional Crisis we find ourselves in, but they are not enough to save what democracy, Rule of Law, and Constitutional order we've had left after the previous Administration and its partisan enablers in Congress, the Courts, and the States. There is literally NO TIME to waste: the 2010 Midterm Elections are already under way, as you are aware. ********** [130141:031810] D.S., Portland, OR A corporation cannot vote. It should never have been given this level of latitude! I am aghast and sick that this misbegotten court has given our democracy away to the deepest pocket! What would the Founders think??? I protest and disagree with this immoral court decision at every level! ********** [143728:031710] J.B., Cleveland, OH If a dollar represents the one vote of one person, then the $thousands/millions spent by corporations in an election campaign is the equivalent of millions of votes - by a relatively few corporations. That is not in any sense a democratic election. ********** [144323:031610] T.B., Baltimore, MD Corporations are NOT people. The notion that the members of the Supreme Court who were in the majority in Citizens United are following the original intent of the Founders is a joke. A bad joke, and we the American PEOPLE are the butt of that joke. ********** [064146:031510] E.M., Cheyenne, WY Our constitution established the government as of the people--not of big conglamorates or of big corporations. The control of our government by organizaitons with money is dispicable and does not conform to the constitution. Whatever you can do to get government control back to the people will be greatly appreciated! Sincerely Ellen M. Mauritz ********** [231023:031410] e.h., Santa Cruz, CA Stop corporations taking over America! ********** [095131:031410] L.K., Boulder, CO The recent mind-boggling, bizarre adventure of the five Supreme Court judges appears to be an unabashed attempt to topple rule of law and, in fact, terminally compromise the United States Constitution itself. IRON WHIM seems to have propelled them through a radically wrong, illegal mockery of judicial process to conferring person-hood upon corporations. Upon what sources of power do they presume as they reach so far to re-set the machinery of government full-tilt toward oligarchy? ********** [220841:031310] v.e., Homer, AK If the American government does not overturn this decision we are doomed as a Democratic society and our earth as we know it will no longer be able to sustain us as a human race. This is a sad, irresponsible, greedy decision by a select few. A Corporation is NOT a person. ********** [210351:031310] C.M., San Mateo, CA Just think about what would happen if everyone incorporated themselves so they could get the same benefits without any of the consequences treatment that most corporations and governments get? But then we would all have to be ruthless, sociopaths, without a conscience or morals. Government/Corporate entities or persons that aren't held responsible or culpable is bound to be so corrupt that it will eventually implode. ********** Go Back