United States, Inc.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/this-corruption-in-washin_b_441308.html

This says it all -

"Bizarrely, the Supreme Court has decided that corporations are "persons", so they have the "right" to speak during elections. But corporations are not people. Should they have the right to bear arms, or to vote? It would make as much sense. They are a legal fiction, invented by the state - and they can be fairly regulated to stop them devouring their creator. This is the same Supreme Court that ruled that the detainees at Guantanomo Bay are not "persons" under the constitution and are deserving of basic protections. A court that says a living breathing human is less of a "person" than Lockheed Martin has gone badly awry."

It's never a good sign for a republic, a democracy, or frankly any system of government representing people, when non-individuals are elevated to a status of right above actual living individual human beings.