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Thanks katray, you seem to know exactly what I was talking about. Scary.
posted by
benzinha
on February 25, 2005 at 7:49 PM
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Excellent post Benz., so well written. I recently watched a documentary about this same issue. A corporation as a personhood is likely to be a physcopath with little or no recourse afforded it's victims. Amazing and frightening how much power they now weild over us. They are the governing force behind our elected puppets, a coup many are still not aware of. I hope more people awaken to this grim reality soon. Posts like this surely help!
posted by
Katray2
on February 25, 2005 at 7:32 PM
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Darrke, they vote with their wallets, which are fatter than ours. They vote
with their paid political ads and soft money and get much more attention than one small group of people who might have something important to say, but have no money to make themselves heard.
Thanks for reading and commenting. Really...........
posted by
benzinha
on February 25, 2005 at 7:13 PM
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They still can't vote. But I think they are behind some of the issues that keep the rest of us too divided to exercise any real power politically.
posted by
DarrkeThoughts
on February 24, 2005 at 9:19 AM
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gypsy, I was hoping to provoke thoughts with this.
The idea of the seminar was to show the time line of progress into 'personhood' for corporations and then to try to legislate backwards, forming vital precedents with new legislation for legal purposes, to undo what has been done.
The first step has been taken in one small town with one small voting session, to decide that only people are people and that corporations are businesses, companies, collective unions of shareholders and workers whose purpose is to move forward economically. The women involved wanted to identify themselves as citizens again and not as 'consumers', as we are all referred to nowadays.
Corporations have usurped the rights of people by becoming people with louder and stronger voices, their power coming from their financial bases, which then remove the 'voices of the 'real' people from the mix, as we are more easily tuned out when we are presently muted and thus removed from the protections of the First and Fourth and 13th, 14th and 15 th Amendments to our Constitution, which were really designed to return power and voices to the average citizen, to protect us and our small individual rights.
posted by
benzinha
on February 23, 2005 at 11:17 PM
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ca88andra, thanks for reading. It is long and I appreciate your time.
posted by
benzinha
on February 23, 2005 at 11:07 PM
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Benz...
Wonderfully thought provoking post!
posted by
RedHeadedGypsy
on February 23, 2005 at 7:43 AM
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This was extremely interesting. Thank you.
posted by
Ca88andra
on February 23, 2005 at 3:23 AM
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Bless you Benzinha, you're a good and kind soul!! VOYAGER9940
posted by
Voyager9940
on February 23, 2005 at 2:44 AM
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Thanks Voyager. My mind fills with what I last heard and then I give my
opinion about it. Then, sadly, because I'm old, I forget it all about three weeks later!!!!
posted by
benzinha
on February 23, 2005 at 2:40 AM
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Dear Benzinha, it's a good thing that you're helping us, making us aware of this! It's a very good idea for an article, I'm pleased I read it!! VOYAGER9940
posted by
Voyager9940
on February 23, 2005 at 2:21 AM
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Voyager, thanks for reading and commenting. The lecture was for three hours
and the legal cases that she cited were each explained to us. Each little court decision changed the 'face' of corporate America from that of 'collective property' to that of a human being who must, by all means possible, be protected from us insensitive and ignorant and honesty demanding citizens.
posted by
benzinha
on February 23, 2005 at 2:07 AM
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Dear Benzinha, this is one stunning article!! I've learned so much from it, things what I never learned before. Although I have to say that in school, our education about America was very poor and minor. Most what I know now, is selfstudy! Thank you for enlightning me more on this subject of history!! See you around!
VOYAGER9940
posted by
Voyager9940
on February 23, 2005 at 1:59 AM
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