Last night I attended a "Move To Amend" meeting in Arvada. This group is a local chapter of a national group so named. The movement to move to amend is a coaltion of lots of folks who realize that the original intent of the founders of our nation did not include artificial legal fictions when they wrote, "We, the People..." (In fact most were pretty hostile to similar entities such as the British East India Company and extremely cautious to grant corporate charters for periods longer than 7 years.)
I pledged to Move To Amend that if I succeed in my campaign to be Colorado's new member in the US Senate that I would initiate legislation to Amend the Constitution to clarify this and so instruct the 5 "Supremes" in their future deliberations.
I also pledged that I would submit impeachment resolutions for those 5 Supremes who were appointed supposedly because they were "conservatives" in an attempt to reduce the "activism" of previous more "Liberal" courts. Liberal/Conservative gibberish aside, their decision was clearly influenced by the corporate culture rather than any rational interpretation of the law or the needs of "We the people..."
No flesh and blood single member of "We, the People" could afford say the $19 million BP Corporation expended in 2009 alone to lobby the US Congress. Yes, there are forty or fifty very rich persons world wide who might have the bucks but even their "special interest" should not influence the decision making powers of the US Government, especiallly when it comes to protecting the health and safety of the rest of us.
This is just another in a rush of examples where Accountability to the Law has been replaced with Nods to Law and a Winky Wink to reduce corporate costs and justify outrageous CEO remuneration.
