ya very well said. and its very sickening that the privatized jails and prisons are allowed to lobby for harsher sentencing.
If corporations want to have "citizenship" so that they can lobby. they should be limited to a similar dollar amount for campaign contributions that every other american is limited to. (2500 a year?) they should also be limited in number of lobbyists , and number of hours lobbying.
if (made up name) Jails Inc wants to have citizenship so they can lobby they need to be treated like the average citizen. no 1 citizen can spend more than 365 days a year 24 hours a day. by allowing "corporations citizenship they should have to act like a single citizen" Actually i think we should force them to close down their businesses while they are lobbying.
If i want to go down to the congress and lobby, i have to take time off of work. If i want to donate money to a campaign i'm limited to (2500?) how much better the US can be (will be?) if we held these corporate citizens to the same standards we are held to. so if the RIAA wants to go down to congress to lobby for internet censorship, they should be required to close their entire office down while they are lobbying. they should be required to send only 1 person (the owner, ceo, or chairman of the board) and they should be limited to $2500 in campaign contributions. (or what ever the current limit is for a person) their total donations should be limited to the median income. want to donate more, figure out how to raise the median income for america...
that would be fair, and lead to a much better society. (and has a snow balls chance in hell because it reduces bribery money .. oh i meant campaign funding)
Damn Matt, what town were you mugged in? that's awful.