Corporations as people reaffirmed

June, 2012, the Supreme Court reaffirmed corporations have First Amendment rights once again.  I will agree the press/media has First Amendment rights limited to the pursuit and publication of knowledge and truth, as I stated in my original article on the Citizens United case.  Adding to my earlier thoughts, however, the decision of five Justices was based on our Law’s longstanding mistreatment of corporations as people, not the Constitution, which resulted from our Legislators lazily failing to produce parallel laws for non-people legal entities.  That said, even if should we foolishly concede corporations are people, corporations are owned by foreigners as well as citizens.  Foreigners do not have the right to democratic representation.  Because political speech is the right to pursue democratic representation, corporations have no business manipulating our political system with their money while they certainly have no right to speech in the political arena.  They may lobby Congress and they may lobby the Executive Branch transparently for policy changes that influence their interests, but they do not have a right to choose our democratically elected leaders.  Based on this reasoning alone, even the Roberts Court should realize it erred.