The Daily Tweets, 2010-01-22: U.S. Supreme Court sells out democracy to...
The news that greeted me this morning: the U.S. Supreme Court’s 5-4 activist decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, which further extended the legal fiction that corporations are...
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Government by psychopathy
A few years ago I saw the Canadian doumentary “The Corporation” based on the book of the same title by Joel Bakan, a internationally recognized Canadian law professor and legal scholar. Film &...
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Toward a 28th Amendment: Corporations are not human persons
This amendment affirms that constitutional rights extend only to human persons. Corporations, partnerships, and other organizational entities are not human persons and, therefore, are not entitled to...
View ArticleMoney as "free speech": Colbert, Maddow, & me
Tip o’ the nib to Daughter Number Three, whose wrote a brief post yesterday on “Free speech for people” (rather than fake people like, y’know, corporations). She mentioned my post on “Government by...
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Good for my worldbuilding, bad for my world
Mars mosaic from a compilation of images captured by Viking Orbiter 1. At center is the entire Valles Marineris canyon system, over 3,000 km long and up to 8 km deep. To the left are a volcanoes of the...
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