@Btrwy

I, too, feel that the time has long since come to impeach those such supreme court judges as deigned to equate juristic persons with natural persons.

For the "United States of America," with all its constituent juristic persons, be they of the federal level or below are to serve us, The People. That must be or become true of all juristic persons allowed to exist and function within the land or otherwise in our name. All such juristic persons must either be „of, by and for“ the People or be nevertheless just as liable to and held accountable for far-sightedly and wisely serving as well as possible the long-term interests of The People of the United States of America.

However, let us, The People, beyond merely impeaching out of office the individual supreme court justices in question, also come together to discuss and eventually to carry out such changes to the yet existing systems and institutions as to better ensure their in fact being and remaining sub-servient to us and to require of them all that they do so well and wisely.

For while it may be that the Supreme Court as an institution yet be soundly conceived, yet even that institution has failed us. Perhaps it, too, needs revision?

As the Declaration of Independence proclaimed, We, The People, have the solemn sovereign Right and Duty to watch over the functioning of those institutions (and companies, for that matter) that we suffer to serve us in our best interests. And there is definitely much wrong in the way our governments and in the way private and public companies have been functioning - in latter years more clearly so than perhaps in past centuries.

„We are The People!“ As well meant as „Occupy“ has been, even more to the point is that „We are The People.“ Let that be our rally call, even as it was for the People of East Germany as the Iron Curtain came down in the end partly due to such self-recognition and adamant insistence thereupon. (Admirably so.)

Let us constitue our own „round tables“ and let us rally together but also let us deliberate upon what adjustments need be made to our systems become all too even openly corrupt.

Let us not just stop short at replacing a few corrupt or perhaps merely all too misguided individual officeholders, be they the President, or senators or whatever else. Let us strive to attain a status for the systems and governments and companies that we allow to attempt to serve us such that they do so, indeed, and do so wisely and long-sightedly.

Some criteria therefore seem already clear to me.

(1) By whatever name we use for it, there must be an end to and a reviling of the principal of „maximizing“ profit in favor of a just conception of „due“ profit and of only being allowed to function for the „benefit“ of the People.

(2) No longer must „the bottomline“ be allowed to be so construed as to include only considerations short-sightedly restricted to the confines of that one institution nor company. Instead, negative affect upon the social environment or upon Nature (among other wider and future oriented perspectives) must necessarily result in the otherwise calculated „so called“ profit becoming reduced by the real costs incurred outside of that organisation.

Thus the buying up of companies with a consequential liquidation thereof, since it results in the former workers becoming unemployed or underemployed must be seen not as a net gain or „profit“ but as a net loss to society and thus be even a cause for requiring payment of penalties and rehabilitation cost reimbursements.

(3) Let us rather „Leave the spots on the apples, cause we need the birds and the bees“ (as Joni Mitchell so fervently sang).

Wisdom requires that our interests be so conceived as to include the husbanding and nurturing of Nature, it being the very means necessary to our Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness. Thus it must as much as possible be kept intact and helped to flourish to the benefit of the present and of all future generations of Humankind and of our fellow creatures.

(4) Our interests must necessarily be so wisely and far-sightedly conceived as to as well benefit Humankind as a whole and as much as possible to mutually benefit all those other Peoples as be affected by the actions taken in our name or in our interest.

Let us begin. Let us deliberate upon such changes as be necessary and prudent. „We are The People!“

Let's form our „round tables“ and constitute regularly convening „constitutional assemblies“ and undertake all manner of otherwise realised means to exercising our Right and Duty as The People to (re-) establish a government „of, by and for The People“.

Let's begin to get the systems that are to serve us back to doing so and to doing well at it.

All the more reason WE need to act now to get a constitutional amendment to stop these gangsters in robes of trust, that amendment must make it clear that this must NEVER be allowed to happen again.

As libertarian I certainly can not take exception to your criticism of the Roberts court extending "civil liberties" to corporations. However, your report would have much more credibility if, in addition to corporations, you had also included the UNIONS which are in the same category of benefiting from decisions of the Robert's court. Neither is good for our republic, and both tend to place the interest of a few powerful men (damn few women) over the interests of individuals. - How unfortunate!!!