CORPORATE
PERSONHOOD
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...corporate
personhood is a real scandal...the meaning of
the 14th Amendment was expanded so that 'person'
included corporations, and over the years corporations
have gotten rights that are way beyond those
of persons of flesh and blood...there's plenty
of anti-corporate feeling in the country but
it's unfocused... a constitutional amendment
would be a great idea... there has to be a lot
of organizing and educational work to build
up a major groundwell of support which will
call for restoring the 14th Amendment to what
the words say...the idea that a corporation
should be given personal rights is a major attack
on classical liberal doctrines which held that
rights inhere in 'persons' - persons of flesh
and blood, not collectivist legal entities established
by state power...
-- Noam Chomsky
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This
is a crucial time in the fight for corporate
civil rights. Just look at the hateful signs
at Occupy Wallstreet: 'Corporations Are Not
People!' Wow, I thought we were past the point
in this country where some people aren't people
just because they have different color skin
or different religion or were born in a lawyer's
office, only exist on paper, have no soul and
can never die. -- Stephen
Colbert
“Let
freedom ka-ching...Corporations do everything
people do except breathe, die and go to jail
for dumping 1.3 million pounds of PCBs in the
Hudson River.
-- Stephen Colbert
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Corporations
have free speech, but they can't speak like you and
me. They don't have mouths or hands ...(Just A Giant
Middle Finger) -- Stephen
Colbert
Citizens
United said that transparency would be the disinfectant,
but (c)(4)’s are warm, wet, moist incubators. There
is no disinfectant. -- Stephen
Colbert
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“The
end of democracy and the defeat of the American
Revolution will occur when government falls into
the hands of lending institutions and moneyed
incorporations.” ~ Thomas
Jefferson
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...
challege the underlying concepts of corporate
personhood ...
--
Dennis Kucinich
It's
time for us to review the circumstances under
which corporations gain rights superior to that
of individuals in our society. It's time for us
to look at the practices of corporations and holding
them accountable for violations of law which often
go unnoticed because there is very little regulation.
--
Dennis Kucinich
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You
can't have a people's democracy as long as corporations
are considered people.
-- Bill Moyers
“Capitalism
is out of control, thanks in no small part to
Citizens United, the Supreme Court decision which
said that a corporation is a person, even though
it doesn't eat, drink, make love, sing, raise
children or take care of aging parents. You can't
have a people's democracy as long as corporations
are considered people.”
-- Bill Moyers
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Fighting
Corporate Personhood can be a tangible realistic
goal to focus the Occupy Movement, and greatly
accelerate the widespread emerging global holistic
movement for a more peaceful, just and sustainable
world that can transform our global economy into
a true global community.
--
Robert Alan Silverstein
You
can help end corporate control of our democracy.
Help pass local, state and national legislation
revoking corporate personhood. (PeopleArePeople.us)
-- Robert Alan Silverstein
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I
still do not understand how a corporation can have
person-hood if it has no soul and never dies.
-- Jon Stewart
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