Corporations have no souls, conscience

My wife and I saw Food, Inc., currently at the Glen Theatre in Glen Ellyn, urged by Moe Parr's sister Marietta while we were on our recent trip to North Carolina.

Moe was the seed cleaner in the film who lost his case against Monsanto. U.S Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas wrote the majority opinion allowing food to be corporatized (patented). The documentary is frightening in its implications for our future. It should be seen by every American.

It was only after the Civil War that our Supreme Court said the rights of an individual citizen under our Constitution extended to corporations - and that has caused serious trouble ever since. Corporations are not individual citizens, they are not even human beings, they have no souls, they have no consciences, the bottom line is their only goal, not the common good. They have powerful legal resources, and through lobbies they control our legislative and judiciary and executive branches. They threaten the very foundations of our Constitutional democracy.

Their treatment as having the same rights as individuals under the Constitution needs to be reassessed and redressed.

Marion J. Reis

Wheaton