Reply #11: With regard to the folks pissed-off about Citizens United... [View All]

[Tesha]

If you accept that artificial persons such as corporations
exist, then it is entirely reasonable that our right to
speech, *GUARANTEED IN THE CONSTITUTION*, extends to all
persons, artificial or natural. This was the narrow
position for which the ACLU filed its amicus brief.

It would have been great if Citizens United had been a
case about "corporate personhood", but it wasn't. That
was *NOT* any part of the question that reached the
Supreme Court, so there was no opportunity for the
ACLU to take a stance on that.

But even then, be careful what rights you're willing
to discard: labor unions and political parties are
corporations too, and under this decision, they have
speech rights too, rights that we usually like.

Tesha