Since Conservatives want Corporations to be treated just

[avebury]

like human beings. I would love to find a great test case where a Corporation's actions has intentionally cost the lives of people be charged with a capital murder charge and given the death penalty. I am anti death penalty but I could get on board with something like that, hopefully drawn and quartered.

[muntrv]

1. I'll believe corporations are people when Rick Perry executes one.

[avebury]

2. Yeah but if you let Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin

get the pleasure, they are sure to botch it and make it really painful.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

3. Koch Industries was fined $350 million and facing 35 years in federal prison in 2000

under the Clinton Administration. The case was still pending when Chimp came into office and he reduced the fine to $20 million and no prison time.

http://www.oilwatchdog.org/meet-koch-industries/

"...In 2000, the Clinton administration leveled a 97-count indictment against Koch Industries for covering up the discharge of 91 tons of benzene, a carcinogen, from its refinery in Corpus Christi, Texas. The company was liable for $350 million in fines; 4 Koch employees faced up to 35 years in prison. “The Koch Petroleum Group eventually pleaded guilty to one criminal charge of covering up environmental violations, including the falsification of documents, and paid a twenty-million-dollar fine” (Jane Mayer, “Covert Operations”, The New Yorker, August 30, 2010). ..."

Ari Fleischer was asked to explain why his boss dropped all criminal charges against his personal friends the Koch Brothers (his single largest campaign contributors). He explained that a corporation can't be imprisoned and that the executives who direct a corporation are not the corporation itself (despite the fact Koch is private and closely held and its decisions are made by the family that owns it, not an amorphous group of shareholders as in a publicly-held corporation). It seems they want it both ways: the corporation can take on the motives, desires, and freedoms of its human owners when exercising its rights but not when it comes to punishment for wrongdoing.

[BillZBubb]

4. Conservatives want corporations to be treated as Uber-Human Beings.

They'll have all the rights and privileges of citizenship, plus tax advantages, plus limited liability on debt, limited liability in civil and criminal matters, and unlimited ability to influence elections.

Their dream of Corporatocracy has the CLOWN COURT paving the way.

[hughee99]

5. If they're "people", why don't they pay personal income taxes? n/t

[B Calm]

6. The coal company in West Virginia with the Tea Bagger owner that killed 30 miners

a few years ago would be be the first one to execute in my book!