Petition updateTry BP Corp, as person, for murder. Liquidate to pay $192B it owes.Open Letter to US AG Jeff Sessions

Mark RobinsonPensacola, FL, United States

12 Apr 2018
Dear AG Sessions;
The debate over whether corporations are people, to me, has just one answer - they aren’t.
However, it has been entered into case law by a decision of the US Supreme Court that they are. This prompts me to advance that some adjustments need to be made to insure that these non-human “people” don’t have rights exceeding those of flesh-and-blood humans. Assuming that the “general welfare” in the preamble still applies to actual, not fictitious, persons this would seem to fall under your portfolio as Attorney General of the United States.
Some steps which could be taken:
A competition could be held to design an Artificial Intelligence which would simulate a conscience, both personal and social to be applied to all corporate dealings. While it might be argued that the actual people running corporations don’t have these things - let’s set the bar a little higher than the lowest example available, since societal responsibility is a hoped-for goal.
Additionally (or alternatively) corporate behavior could be regulated as human behavior is, by enforcing on corporations all the laws humans are subject to. This is the direction explored by the accompanying petition, which suggests that BP Corporation be charged, as a person, with murder, and liquidated as the corporate personhood equivalent of capital punishment. There is no statute of limitations on murder, and several states bordering the Gulf of Mexico, where the spill occurred, still employ the death penalty.
Will there be scenes, at the trial, of weeping relatives pleading for BP’s life?
It excuses nothing to create an artificial person and then pretend that its actions are beyond our control. We, the signatories of this petition, urge you, in your capacity as Attorney General of our nation, which is great in many ways, and greatly deficient in others, to prosecute the action recommended in this petition.
In hopes of our common protection and success,
Mark Robinson and the 110 others who have signed as of 4/12/2018
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