Two brothers are walking across the U.S. to urge action on a constitutional amendment. Laird and Robin Monahan are both Vietnam veterans, both in their sixties, and both outraged by the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, which overturned the provision of McCain-Feingold barring corporations and unions from paying for independent political ads. “Corporations are an efficient economic tool,” said Laird, 69, at the Capitol on Friday. “But a Supreme Court that puts an economic tool above human beings will guarantee our exclusion from representative government.” Laird says we need a constitutional amendment stating that corporations aren’t people. “That’s what we have to tell all of the governing bodies of all of our municipalities. That if they can’t support a constitutional amendment to abolish corporate personhood, they aren’t representing us. They aren’t loyal to we the people.” [Read more...]