The Life Connection • From the Publisher

With all the inequities we face in life, it’s gratifying to know that the Supreme Court has taken a stand to ensure that we are all treated equally and are assured Full-Personhood status.

I can’t tell you how long this special privilege and unequal treatment has bothered me.

There has been a lot of criticism of the recent Supreme Court decision to allow corporations to join society as people, but I think that’s unfair and definitely shortsighted. It may look like a loss for individuals, but it’s really a gain.

While it needs to be pointed out that unions as well as corporations have been given this new status of personhood, we also know that the corporations are the entities—that is, former non-human entities—with the money to have the greatest influence on our society. Some make billions of dollars—sometimes hundreds of billions of dollars—and sometimes that’s per quarter.

So the biggest influx of, ah, people, will be coming from that direction.

Fortunately, with great foresight the Supreme Court didn’t go half way, they went all the way in granting corporations full people-hood.

That’s good for many reasons that some of us seem to be missing.

First of all, we know that full privileges are not granted until people reach majority. That gives us 18 years to get ready for this change.

Fortunately no special rights were granted corporations—this is about equality—so the clock just started ticking, which will surely be clarified soon.

Imagine what it would be like if they bypassed this standard. We’d have infant corporate people (CPs) jumping into the political process when still being bottle-feed and without any life experience in our society.

We all know that time brings us perspective—maybe even a course in civics—and acclimating to belonging in a society comes only with experience.

Imagine what it would be like with children or self-absorbed teenagers with all the rights of people and more money than God running society.

We all know that even though we may be able to function as individuals, operating with others in a group is different and takes practice. Corporations do fail. In time they will gain some experience and mature as they operate as a family member and have a broader focus than a selfish child might have. Our Founding Fathers knew better than to allow children to run things.

It’s a good thing the court has gone all the way with this and recognized this full personhood instead of giving them a few rights here and there. By granting full people status the SC has given our new CPs time to acclimate and join us as full members of society, not prematurely as self-centered children.

Many people—those previously known as real people—are not looking at the bright side of this. If you are concerned about the wealth and power of corporations, the biggest corporations just took a hit.

In most States they will not be able to join in union with other similar-type corporations—no corporate merging. Universally they will not be able to clone themselves and create franchises everywhere.

We can’t have two sets of standards, after all. The courts just said so. So either we all get to be more effective and accomplish more by cloning ourselves, or none of us do. It’s either cloning for everyone or no cloning and that’s been decided already—no cloning.

Finally we are getting to publicly define what it means to be human, to be a CP. Given the far-reaching ramifications, the highest court will certainly be faced with clarifying these issues about the God-given rights a person and a CP are born with.

The important thing to remember is that individuals have not lost power, they have expanded to a level previously reserved for super-human entities previously considered nonhuman. This is undoubtedly the greatest expansion of the powers of humanity we’ve ever experienced.

This will change a lot. Right now a great exchange of ideas is going regarding health care. Every day 1800 people declare bankruptcy because of the burden of medical bills. That will change overnight.

As soon as we all take advantage of our status of corporate-personhood, we won’t have the stress of being personally liable for our financial miscalculations and medical misfortunes the way we are now. We can close up that family CP, have a going-out-of-business sale, rename ourselves and start anew without being personally responsible for what our family CP has done as a group. That’s the breath of fresh air and the relief we’ve needed, especially in today’s economy.

Our society will become a much kindlier, gentler place now that we are all corporate people. And the best is yet to come.

Hasn’t it bothered most of us, at one time or another, to hear, “I did it for the share holders?” Look how that conversation will change.

Shareholders everywhere will shift to—I wanted to act like a human being, but I couldn’t. I wanted to save that river, that lake, ocean, city, open-space, landmark, mountain, valley, park, view or beach, but you see, we couldn’t. We had to think like single-minded share-holding members of inhuman entities interested only in the bottom line. We could not think of our community and think as people who were affecting other people. Now we are free to be people and think of the overall effect we are making on our communities, our children, our health, our common air and water—how we all live together now that we are in this together. It’s so freeing. We can join with all our brother and sister CPs and fully be a part of humanity for a change. We’re part of the human family! The reality TV possibilities are endless.

Never again will we hear corporations say “Yes, we know smoking isn’t the best thing to do, but we’ll lose money if we stop selling cigarettes—we’ll lose money if we stop polluting the air or water supply—I know kids get asthma but —we dump instead of recycle because it’s easier—we know solar power is better, but we’re in the fossil fuels business. . . .” No more.

As people, we don’t want to make other people sick—especially family. Never again will we be faced with financial vs. human decisions because we—all of us—all being CPs—all being people—are freed of the straightjacket of personless-entity-thinking now called the “bottom-line.” Now we—our existence, health and well-being—are the bottom line. And the Constitution guarantees it exists for “we the people.” The separation, the division, is over.

Don’t you know those previously known as corporate share-holders are sitting there thinking, “Thank God we aren’t obligated to sell the children anymore when they aren’t profitable or carrying their weight?”

Without the share holders’ unifying act that would be the obligation, wouldn’t it? We either have to maintain that only-money-counts shareholder mentality that says it’s okay for the U.S. of CPs to sell off kids, or we acknowledge people don’t do that.

It’s much simpler now—People just don’t poop where they sleep and eat and live. Only inhuman entities do and they’ve been abolished! We’ve all been emancipated!

What a great day for shareholders to finally realize their status as humans—as people—responsible for the environments they create.

We are equals in the CP family. The SC has changed the conversation for us. This is revolutionary. World changing.

Well, not quite world changing. The other part of the Supreme Court decision was though. No longer are corporations—or governments—bound by national boundaries. No longer will foreigners be restricted from participating in American politics and society or be treated inhumanely.

And by definition, if corporations are people and can join in, certainly people in other countries are already people and equal too.

How can you give one person half the rights of another? The SC is sure to address this soon and grant voting privileges to everyone who’s interested.

They certainly can’t pick and choose which rights to give to which people. We’re all people! All equal! All rights!

People the world over are now one big family. What religions, world leaders, legislatures and executives, public and private groups have never been able to do, our Supreme Court has accomplished.

We are one with the world.

And it’s just beginning. What an exciting, expansive time for We the Persons.