Good for them!:thumbsup: I hope they do okay in NV on Hwy 50 (https://travelnevada.com/documents/guides/survival_guide.pdf). I wonder if they need some sort of extra support for that part of the journey?
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We need more candidates that understand what a sham corporate personhood is and to stand up against it like this guy named John Murphy from the 16th District. John Murphy For Congress - - - 16th District of Pennsylvania (https://www.johnmurphyforcongress.org/index.htm)
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John Murphy For Congress - - Corporate Personhood (https://www.johnmurphyforcongress.org/corporate.htm)
“I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength,
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Quite simply "corporate personhood" is the legal fiction turned science-fiction that US corporations have the same protections under the United States Constitution as do human beings. Yet just as slavery is the fabrication that a person can be property; "corporate personhood" is the fabrication that property can be a person.<o:p></o:p>
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In fact, thinking of the whole issue as a bad science fiction play may not be a bad idea. A well intended scientist creates a robot designed to serve mankind and make his burdens easier. Unwittingly after a few years the robot demands equal consideration as a human being. Its power grows and grows until finally human beings now simply exist to service the robot itself.<o:p></o:p>
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Corporate personhood in fact came about as a result of either deceit or accident on the part of a law clerk in 1886. More and more it looks like it was a deliberate act of deceit given the law clerk's connections with the railroads -- the most powerful corporations back in those days. Although the Supreme Court itself had nothing to say about the issue of corporate personhood in this particular case (Santa Clara) the clerk wrote in the “head notes” that corporations should be considered persons under the 14th amendment to the Constitution of the United States.<o:p></o:p>
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Let's take a look at how corporate personhood works. Suppose, to keep Wal-Mart at bay, your county commissioners enact an ordinance prohibiting Wal-Mart from doing business in your county. The subsequent (and immediate) lawsuit would be a slam-dunk for Wal-Mart’s lawyers, because this corporation enjoys—just as you and I do as living, breathing citizens—the Constitutional rights of “due process” and “equal protection.” Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. is a person, not in fact, not in flesh, not in any tangible form, but in law. <o:p></o:p>
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This is not what the Founding Fathers intended. And for 100 years after the Constitution was ratified, various governmental entities led corporations around on leashes, like obedient puppies, canceling their charters promptly if they compromised the public good in any way. In 1886 that all changed and the public good was increasingly compromised—until it was finally displaced altogether. <o:p></o:p>
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“In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.”<o:p></o:p>
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-Dwight D. Eisenhower[I] Special advisor to Murphy for Congress<o:p></o:p>
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<table class="MsoNormalTable" style="width: 80%;" border="0" cellpadding="0" width="80%"> <tbody><tr style=""> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> Today, the First Amendment protects the right of corporations-as-persons to finance political campaigns and to employ lobbyists, who then specify and redeem the incurred obligations. Democracy has been transformed into a crypto-plutocracy, and public policy is no longer crafted to serve the American people at large. It is shaped instead to maintain, protect, enhance or create opportunities for corporate profit. <o:p></o:p>
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Consider this little event that took place just a few years ago. Senators Patty Murray from Washington and Ted Stevens from Alaska inserted a last-minute provision in the 2002 defense appropriation bill. It directed the Air Force to lease, for ten years, one hundred Boeing 767 airplanes, built and configured as passenger liners, to serve as aerial refueling tankers. Including the costs of removing the seats and installing the tanks, and then reversing the process ten years from now, the program will cost $17 billion. The Air Force never asked for these planes, and they weren’t in President Bush’s budget for the Defense Department. Political contributions from the Boeing company totaled $640,000 in the 2000 election cycle, including $20,230 for Senator Murray and $31,100 for Senator Stevens. <o:p></o:p>
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Try this one: The former chairman of the CSX Corporation, Mr. John Snow, was appointed by President Bush to be the Secretary of the Treasury. Mr. Snow’s company, another legal person, exercised its Constitutional rights by contributing $5.9 million to various campaigns—three-quarters of it to Republicans—over seven election cycles. It was a wise investment. In 3 of the last 4 years, averaging $250 million in annual profits, CSX paid no federal income taxes at all. Instead, it received $164 million in tax rebates—money paid to the company by the Treasury Department.<o:p></o:p>
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Just as slavery is the fabrication that a person can be property;<o:p></o:p>
Corporate Personhood is the fabrication that property can be a person.<o:p></o:p>
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<table class="MsoNormalTable" style="width: 80%;" border="0" cellpadding="0" width="80%"> <tbody><tr style=""> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"> No, this is not what the Founding Fathers intended democracy to be. Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, were seriously anxious about “moneyed corporations” and their potential interference in public affairs. The Bill of Rights these two men drafted actually contained an 11th amendment that did not survive. It was designed to control corporate expansion and dominance. It was considered unnecessary since clearly none of the states would ever allow corporations to dominate their political atmosphere. <o:p></o:p>
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As the 19th century wore on American corporations entered lawsuit after lawsuit to achieve a strategic objective; corporate personhood. With that, they could break the leashes of social control and regulation. They could sue county commissioners. Or lease their unsold airliners to the Air Force. Or collect millions in tax rebates. <o:p></o:p>
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All of this has come about as a result of corporations using a head-note authored by a court clerk in 1886! The railroads achieved by deceit what they were unable to achieve through litigation. Even though head notes are not supposed to have any effect in law in this case a head-note was in fact used as the precedent upon which all future corporate personhood issues were decided.<o:p></o:p>
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Although there is no legally sustainable basis for "corporate personhood", sustained it will have to be, for years or decades or even longer: corporations will fight the attack bitterly, but we now know corporate personhood has utterly no basis in law. <o:p></o:p>
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Ultimately as the public becomes more and more conscious that their rights and liberties are being usurped by monsters of our own creation they will pull the plug onthese imposing behemoths. The sooner corporate personhood is abolished the sooner Americans will experience a real growth in democracy, liberty and justice.<o:p></o:p>
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