On one final note, one of the obstacles that have faced litigationIt is certain that allowing corporations to keep the rights of natural persons that they stole is a continuing monumental mistake. We are in Iraq because the owners of a lot of corporations saw a way to make a lot of money by kicking a country when it was down, they lobbied for war, they are Dubya's true constituency, and Dubya is the sort of coward who kicks a country when it's down. /Unequal Protection/ by Thom Hartmann tells the sordid story of how a few sleazy Republicans stole the rights of natural persons for corporations by hijacking the 13th or 14th Amendment to the Constitution (that was supposed to grant freed slaves the right to vote) by eliminating the word "natural" from the phrase "natural person." A fictitious person gained the same rights as a natural person through this deliberate subterfuge, after enough court shopping and packing the Supreme Court with railroad lawyers. The book should be required reading for every US citizen, but it isn't, and it won't be, because it doesn't serve the corporate interest. What would be very cool is if every US citizen *wanted* to read Hartmann's book and find out how to go about correcting the single most egregious injustice ever perpetrated on the US public. We've, in essence, had the WTO for more than 100 years in this country, since /Union Pacific Railroad v. Santa Clara County/. Unmitigated corporate dominance, with the noose ever tightening, is our lot. When they've killed enough of us to finally get us pissed off, we'll follow Hartmann's plan, turn the world right side up again, and return corporations to the service of the people. Government will quickly follow suit.
efforts in cases like this is that corporate (fictitious) entities are
treated as persons under the law, this notion in my view is insane. If
you've watched the documentary "The Corporation" one of the final
conclusions reached is that we need a constitutional amendment
abolishing these corporate rights, then we can really start making some
headway with these polluting bastards!
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