In response to John Perry’s latest video on the Supreme Court’s recent ruling, commenter “Faizon101” makes a critical point.

“what difference does it make they already funnel as much money as they want anyway“

No matter what restrictions are proposed, they can, by nature, only serve to lengthen Faizon’s metaphorical “funnel”.

The fundamental problem is not what corporations, as legal persons are allowed to do.

The problem is that a organization, i.e., a corporation, is given legal powers—which only the individual should be recognized by law as having as the means of the individual expressing their natural rights.

Man’s nature mandates to government the recognition of certain, as the Declaration of Independence puts it, “unalienable rights”.

These “rights” are not fungible; they are expressions of, and consequent to, the individual’s nature as a human being.

And therefore cannot be transferred to an agreement amoungst men.

An agreement, of course, is not a person…or any living being, for that matter.

The mere passing of laws cannot change reality’s fundamental nature.

Now we can see greater logic in our body of laws bestowing “freedom of speech” upon my neighbor’s cat, to choose a personal favorite non-human living entity of mine, than to a corporation, which is, in essence, a mere agreement amoungst individuals of a particular species…

Sorry, John, but you’re just not digging deeply enough here.

You object the the court’s ruling that “money is speech”, as you put it. But money is speech—or any other value you may wish to assign—as money is merely a means of calibrating the abstract concept,”value”, allowing us to engage in free, efficient exchange of whatever we may produce for whatever we may need…

The solution is not to expand governmental authority to further restrict the opportunity of corporate heads to use corporate personhood to advance their own ends.

Again, it is man’s nature to advance it’s own interests. You cannot change that by way of imposing coercive restrictions.

The problem lies in the social structure that channels the persuit of self-interest towards negative ends.

The solution is to end corporate personhood; a legal construct at odds with man’s nature.

Stop looking for solutions in the expansion of authority.

There’s an epiphany waiting out there for you, John.

If you dig deeply enough, you’ll see that all the problems you address have authoritarian excesses as their source.

How can more of the same solve the problem?

—The Bikemessenger