The Supreme Court took a big wet shit on the shag carpet of democracy with their decision last week. Corporate personhood is garbage. A shitty human being can be shamed, or in the case of super-greedy-fucks, at least be torched and pitchforked by an angry mob. A corporate person can morph into a faceless non-person and hide behind a pile of money and an ace legal team as soon as it’s convenient.
The only rights corporations should have are the ones that protect their human participants’ individual rights. Telling ExxonMobil or Lockheed to shut the fuck up and stay out of elections doesn’t stop any of its vile, rapacious employees or shareholders from doing the same. Until Apple develops a tablet with its own life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness, only human beings deserve certain unalienable rights.
There were many great comics on the subject this week. Here are a few of my favorites:
Matt Bors – The Corporate Civil Rights Movement
Lloyd Dangle – This Week’s Troubletown
Abell Smith – Great Moments in American Jurisprudence
Kevin Moore – If Persons Were Treated Like Corporations (I’m sad to report that this is the last In Contempt strip ever. At least until President Jenna Bush draws Kevin away from Wanderlost in the Fugly 20s.)
Next Week: Big Fat Valentines
January 29th, 2010 at 12:01 pm
Right on. Big Wet Shit sums up the decision quite well.
January 29th, 2010 at 3:12 pm
Where can I buy a T-shirt with the first panel (corporate persons are jerks) on it?
Tim
January 30th, 2010 at 6:26 pm
I second Tim’s query. That would be an excellent tee.
February 1st, 2010 at 12:19 am
Ian – I also think “Big Wet Shit” is the Engrish translation of my comic strip.
Tim and Kevin – Hmm, here. Eventually. If enough folks want it, I’ll do a run. I’m hoping to figure out new t-shirt crap by spring.
February 1st, 2010 at 7:30 am
What’s absolutely terrifying is that skinny guy in the title panel looks like me. And what’s funny is corporations backing candidates to more or less protect corporate interests is illegal over here.
February 1st, 2010 at 2:29 pm
A shitty human being can be shamed, or in the case of super-greedy-fucks, at least be torched and pitchforked by an angry mob.
But I bet you’d be hard-pressed to find a willing sack o’ meat to head Goldman Sachs if a succession of high-ranking individual greedy fucks were given the Raging Peasant treatment.
You can even find where they fucking live ONLINE. Or at least where their tax papers live.
February 2nd, 2010 at 11:07 am
Chris – Maybe if they were allowed to bribe politicians, Cadbury would be trying to takeover Hershey.
Chocolatepie – I hope you are a sentient chocolate pie advocating violence, because that would be AWESOME.
February 7th, 2010 at 12:04 am
Here, a very funny little video about a guy who farts in an elevator while trying to deliver a pickup line. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DA9tjOzLMCA
February 9th, 2010 at 6:35 pm
Yea on the T-shirt!
And on the back, you could do a drawing of a turd on a shag carpet!
February 10th, 2010 at 11:44 am
Warren – If I ever get into television, a turd on a shag carpet will be the logo of my production company.
I’ll do a t-shirt design poll in the spring. Maybe something with Kickstarter to fund the production.