Impeach John Roberts

John Roberts should be impeached. We cannot tolerate a Chief Justice who “validates” the absurd, self-serving, pathological and destructive notion of “Corporate Personhood.” A Supreme Corporate Court that eliminates the minimal existing limitations on corporate campaign donations is an abomination. This despicable ruling allows massive, obscenely wealthy institutions like Exxon-Mobil or Microsoft to exercise unlimited influence in Congress. Or the Executive. Or any other aspect of the American political process.

Any “reasoning,” to the effect that these often monstrous entities are simply composed of numerous individuals is transparently specious. Sure, a few individuals, like New York Mayor and media mogul Bloomberg, Microsoft honcho Bill Gates, and currency-trader/political activist/”philanthropist” George Soros have the kind of megabucks it takes to game the system. But financial behemoths who can assume the role of big-time players are the exception, not the rule. I haven’t that kind of money, power and influence; neither do most of you reading this, unless you’re a lot wealthier than anyone ever imagined.

Thanks to this Court’s disgusting ruling, which conservatives salivate over, the impending mid-term congressional elections promise to be more compromised than ever. We can expect the airwaves to become absolutely flooded with advertisements, bought by the highest bidders. This socio-economic arrangement, which neocons label “Freedom” is really the economic analog of a political philosophy known as Fascism. It’s corporate hegemony at its worst, where one can have just as much “democracy” as one can purchase! The situation here in the United States is now doomed to become yet more pyramidal, more hierarchical, with the huge money interests running ever more rampant in their insatiable quest to control EVERYTHING. To OWN people, places and things. To patent living creatures. To destroy the environment to an extent that will make the Exxon Valdez spill or the Three Mile Island Meltdown look like minor glitches.

In general, it’s time to ABOLISH once and for all the absurd and twisted notion that corporations are persons! If that were true, and they ARE homo-sapiens, when can we “arrest” Goldman-Sachs for embezzlement or jaywalking? Better yet, when can we sentence AIG to death for massive fraud and for “his” role in bringing on the current global recession?