“Dow Chemical in a case it took to the Supreme Court asserted it has Fourth Amendment privacy rights and could refuse to allow the EPA to do surprise inspections of its facilities. J.C. Penney asserted before the Supreme Court that it had a Fourteenth Amendment right to be free from discrimination—the Fourteenth Amendment was passed to free the slaves after the Civil War—and that communities that were trying to keep out chain stores were practicing illegal discrimination. Tobacco and asbestos companies asserted that they had Fifth Amendment rights to keep secret what they knew about the dangers of their products. With the exception of the Nike case, all of these attempts to obtain human rights for corporations were successful, and now they wield this huge club against government that was meant to protect relatively helpless and fragile human beings.”
You can always manipulate the law. This is an excellent example.
If a law fails your attempt to manipulate or monopolize it you can always take it down by rewriting it.
Those with a lot of power and money are pretty damn crafty not to mention clever when it concerns getting the greater population to buy into their bullshit.
The corporations as persons thing
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood
is evil.
Earlier in american history you states and communities could revoke corporate charters if the companies did bad stuff. It was seen as a priviledge. Now it is almost impossible to affect these giant ‘citizens’.