Today's elections are tame compared to elections in the past when you could slander and libel your opponents with abandon and most politicians did.

There's more checks and balances and laws against outright slander and libel today.

Please read your history if you don't believe me.

There's a simple solution.

If Citizen's United stated that corporations are people and, therefore, have Free Speech, it only follows that they have the REST of the freight that 'people' have to deal with.

That is, if your "person" slanders or libels someone, you risk going to jail. Since the corporation isn't "physically" a person, the board running the corporation can be considerd the brains and, therefor, responsible.

If you started giving the CEOs the perp-walk to jail instead of fines that do nothing but hit a balance sheet, you'll see more responsible behavior. Right now, there's no risk whether it's when you make up crap to denigrate a political opponent or kill a dozen people when your offshore rig blows up.

If the CEO of BP was up on 11 charges of manslaughter, things might change. If a $20B fine wasn't the worst the company was looking at, things might change.

It's even worse than CEO's escaping culpability. The former CEO of British Petroleum is a great example.

Tony Hayward, BP's CEO before and during the Deep Water Horizon oil spill was paid a $17 million severance bonus. Hayward is presently senior independent non-executive director of Corus Group, appointed in April 2002, and a non-executive director of Tata Steel. Hayward is a member of Tata's Health, Safety and Environment committee. As of 22 July 2011, Hayward has been hired by Glencore International to oversee environment and safety. On 8 September 2011, Hayward's venture firm, Vallares, merged with the Turkish oil firm Genel Energy to create a $4.5 billion company with operations in northern Iraq

.In the meantime, only one BP employee has been arrested, an American engineer who is accused of destroying e-mails. He was fired by BP.

So, we kill 3,000 kids and spend a trillion dollars to stabilize and democratize Iraq. We don't get any oil--or even a discount on their oil. But the guy who was responsible for fouling our gulf is able to sweep in and get filthy rich in Iraq? What is wrong with this picture?