Corporations that Think They’re People
Posted on:: February 18th, 2003
From Adina:
There’s a discussion on the Well, in the publicly visible Inkwell.vue area, about Thom Hartmann’s recent book: Equal Protection: The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights
In our current legal system, corporations are considered persons, with the civil rights due people, like free speech, and freedom from search and seizure. Hartmann argues that these rights contribute to corporate abuses, and argues in favor of restricting corporate personhood.
If you read only one message there, make it #5 from Hartmann. But why stick with just one?
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There’s at least one candidate who is offering a constitutional amendment to change this:
http://www.rmbowman.com/Bowman2000/28thFlyer.htm
“Bob Bowman was the first presidential candidate officially recognized by the Reform Party in 1999, and for several weeks was the only one. He campaigned in 48 states. Central to his campaign were (1) electoral reform (severing the connection between big money and political power), (2) international trade reform (renouncing NAFTA, GATT, and the WTO), (3) health care reform ( a doctor-run single-payer national health system), (4) structural reform (ending the domination of society by transnational corporations and banks), (5) economic reform (allowing workers to keep more of the wealth they create), and (6) foreign relations reform (freeing the American people from the threat of nuclear terrorism by a return to a Constitutional foreign policy which refuses to go to war for the financial interests of the wealthy few).”
If you’d like to read his true state of the union, see:
http://www.rmbowman.com/Bowman2000/StateOfUnion0302short.htm
Up for the long version?
http://www.rmbowman.com/Bowman2000/StateOfUnion2003.htm
More at his main page: http://www.rmbowman.com/Bowman2000/index.html
You forget to mention that corporations also exercize our right to vote.
Check out http://www.billionairesforbushorkerry.org