Corporations given personhood was a murky decision given by the case of Santa Clara vrs.
the Railroad(1800's) in which a court clerk rewrote a memo, C. Bankcroft Davis declaring this personhood which became court precedence.

A prescient account of this episode can be found in Thom Hartmann's book, "Unequal Protection". (You can Google it).

Number 6, I've promoted you again after hearing your lucid comments. My apologies to you.

No we shouldn't follow self-style pundits. But Moore is more than that. He represents a hidden groundswell of Americans who realize that something is drastically wrong with our system of government as it stands when issues and bills can be bought like commodities without the real substance of their value in helping American society.

Unfortunately, in a country that values personalities over substance, we need people who are catalysts for social change. Obama was elected as a figurehead. His campaign ideas were good ones. Whether he will emerge as the kind of president I thought he would be is still questionable.

We assumed that there was pure Communism, pure socialism, pure capitalism etc. but this is not true. Every ism of governing had other elements in it. We have had socialism in our Medicare, post office, military, public works for some time. Social Security is socialism.
European countries have found a blend between capitalism and socialism that work.
We could do the same in the States.

The thing that is holding us back is corporate greed and Moore is right about this.
There is another negative. The Christian jihad in Afghanistan today by the American military but this is another thread.

Stringsinger