Utterly untrue, aside from those punk shareholders who are not citizens of this country. Nobody should give a rat's what those dirtbags have to say. Haliburton has no right to even have a lobbyist in Washington DC, let alone participate in our election campaigns.
They ain't American.
How does a dope dealer in Bogota or the owner of a boy brothel in Patpong get to have a say in how we run our country?
Get freaking real.
Even that right is taken too far in that it prevents proper regulation of hazardous products.
Which is why they should have only those legal rights which allow them to conduct business.
Not really.
This is covered under the First Ammendment. Corporatist argue from the Fourteenth, which is utterly brain-dead.
And every bloody one of those shareholders has an indivdual right to vote or contribute to an election campaign or stand on a street corner shrieking like a teatard that he wants his country back, if, and only if, they are Americans. They have, collectively, no right to bribe a senator with a big campaign donation.
Those shareholder who are not Americans can just sod off. They have no constitutional rights if they are not here, and those are limited to criminal justice and private speech. They have no right to participate in ourt political process at all.
