Corporations are people too!

But, wait a second. Why hasn't anyone in the media or legal world wondered aloud, "If a corporation has First Amendment rights, doesn't said corporation also have to be treated as one person when it commits acts of fraud or malfeasance?" Seriously. How do they get to have it both ways--as if I have to ask, knowing the power that they wield in our "democracy"?

Here's what should happen, if a corporation is indeed one person. That person should go to jail or pay the fine(s) if, say, the accounting department (see ENRON and WorldCom), or the risk management department and CEOs (see Goldman Sachs and Leimann Bros. for starters) commit crimes. Every man and woman who is part of that corporation should be treated as part of the whole. Everyone in that corporation should go to jail, not just the few who screwed our country. After all, despite what the Koch Bros. and Fox News would like you to believe, the rank-and-file, managers, and everyone else are who really build the wealth in a corporation. Granted these people have little to no say in executive decisions, but perhaps they should if the lot of them are going to federal prison if the CEO decides that he is not interested in the laws of the U.S. of A.

I just can't believe that a corporation can have the power to control our democracy, yet have none of the responsibilities that every other "person" in our country has.