Sunday, January 6, 2013

California Man, "If Corporations Are People, I'm Taking The Carpool Lane"


Corporations Are People My Friendcartoonmovement.com



When Jonathan Frieman of San Rafael, Calif., was pulled over for driving alone in the carpool lane, he argued to the officer that, actually, he did have a passenger.


He waved his corporation papers at the officer, he told NBCBayArea.com, saying that corporations are people under California law.


Frieman doesn't actually support this notion. For more than 10 years, Frieman says he had been trying to get pulled over to get ticketed and to take his argument to court -- to challenge a judge to determine that corporations and people are not the same. Mission accomplished in October, when he was slapped with a fine -- a minimum of $481.


Frieman has been frustrated with corporate personhood since before it became a hot button issue in 2010, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that corporate and union spending may not be restricted by the government under the First Amendment.



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