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  • Artificial Person with No Soul and No Conscience

    That's the legal and social status of a corporation in America. The absurdity of it is that corporations exist by virtue of government franchise. In other words, the government, created by the people to serve their needs, now creates artificial persons with the same rights as natural persons. How could that possibly be? That's like humans creating ...
    Posted to The Best Policy by rjhuntington on September 8, 2009

  • To each his own religion

    «It is still individuals who have rights, not religions.» I couldn't agree more with the above. Yet, as I read it, I couldn't help remembering a recent U. S. Supreme Court decision that corporations have the same protection as individuals under the U. S. Bill of Rights. I call this appalling, too.
    Posted to Fighting Words by Jose Ferreira on March 4, 2009

  • I Liked Ike -- Now I Like Mike - HUCKABEE, that is

    I liked everything I heard about Mike Huckabee, even before he started running in earnest for his Party's Nomination to be our next U.S. President. The more I learned about Mike Huckabee, the better I liked his candidacy. Further, he is a very well-spoken and persuasive guy, with that down-to-Earth Midwestern style I always liked about ...
    Posted to Politics by MichaelBernard1 on July 8, 2008

  • Democrats in Congress Failed Us All 8 Years

    The Democrats and Democratic Party failed to stand up for what is right for the entire eight years of the Bush / Cheney White House misrule. They gave away our American two-party system; they gave away majority rule; they gave away our civil rights and bill of rights and civil liberties; they gave away the constitutional authority of the ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by MichaelBernard1 on January 30, 2008

  • Why I'm an American in Exile...

    On June 13th, 2007, I received a death threat from someone claiming to be a member of the US Intelligence community. What was my ''crime''? I blew the whistle on the election fraud of 2004. Why did the CIA feel threatened by this? Because I revealed how they smuggled cocaine into the US using a front company called ''Skyway Communications''. ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by amerigobard on November 24, 2007

  • The Absurdity of Corporate Rights

    The notion that a corporation has or should have rights -- either natural rights or constitutional rights -- the same as a natural person, is patently absurd, even when the corporation is regarded as an artificial person for purposes of legal convenience. Corporations exist only as government franchises. They have no independent existence apart ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by rjhuntington on August 2, 2007