The activists Supreme Court thinks so and their ruling this week gives corporations expanded power over our everyday lives and clearly ensures that the rights of American citizens will come in far behind Wall Street and our old friends the Military-Industrial Complex.
Soon Corporate America will be pushing their 2nd Amendment rights and every company will have their very own Blackwater style militia to enforce their perception of the American Dream.
This is a battle that has been going on ever since the original right wing Americans filibustered their way putting slave holding rights into the Constitution. The Supreme Court ruled that corporations were people back in the 1880s as a sop to the Railroad Robber Barons. The link to the timeline below illustrates this long sorry history of our steady march toward fascism.
I don't use the word fascism lightly. Here is the definition of fascism.
This Supreme Court ruling would allow Osama Bin Ladin to donate to Sarah Palin's presidential campaign. Lets call it Al Qaeda Inc.
Special interest and lobbying will now take on new meanings and new powers. This is a serious blow to democracy in America.
Timeline of Personhood Rights and Powers
I've read the Wall Street Journal and the conservative blogs which think this is some great return to freedom and the taking away of unwarranted power concentrated in the "liberal mainstream media" which by the way is all corporate owned. I just don't agree with any of it.
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Are Corporations People?
The activists Supreme Court thinks so and their ruling this week gives corporations expanded power over our everyday lives and clearly ensures that the rights of American citizens will come in far behind Wall Street and our old friends the Military-Industrial Complex.
Soon Corporate America will be pushing their 2nd Amendment rights and every company will have their very own Blackwater style militia to enforce their perception of the American Dream.
This is a battle that has been going on ever since the original right wing Americans filibustered their way putting slave holding rights into the Constitution. The Supreme Court ruled that corporations were people back in the 1880s as a sop to the Railroad Robber Barons. The link to the timeline below illustrates this long sorry history of our steady march toward fascism.
I don't use the word fascism lightly. Here is the definition of fascism.
This Supreme Court ruling would allow Osama Bin Ladin to donate to Sarah Palin's presidential campaign. Lets call it Al Qaeda Inc.
Special interest and lobbying will now take on new meanings and new powers. This is a serious blow to democracy in America.
Timeline of Personhood Rights and Powers
I've read the Wall Street Journal and the conservative blogs which think this is some great return to freedom and the taking away of unwarranted power concentrated in the "liberal mainstream media" which by the way is all corporate owned. I just don't agree with any of it.
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