Corporations are NOT living organisms

Corporations are waging war on human beings and the environment. A recent article by Russel Mokhiber in CounterPunch reports ten egregious corporate acts in the first part of this week alone. In each case the guilty corporation was fined. It is unlikely that the fines will be paid or will be paid in full, because attorneys will ask the court on appeal to reduce the fines, and often that is exactly what happens. A court reduced the Exxon Valdez fine from $150 million to $25 million for example.

Corporations are not people, they are not living beings, they are immortal, and they cannot be poisoned by pollution or radioactivity, so they have no inherent interest in protecting life or the environment. Corporations are a cancer that needs to be surgically removed from the body politic.