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You can't have it both ways SCOTUS
If the goper activist Supreme Court justices think corporations are people then they should face the same responsibilities as people.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/27/corporate-personhood-supreme-court-alien-tort-statute_n_1305226.html?ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false#sb=1353869,b=facebook
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/27/corporate-personhood-supreme-court-alien-tort-statute_n_1305226.html?ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false#sb=1353869,b=facebook
"When the goin gets weird, the weird turn pro." Hunter S. Thompson
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Crooow:This music would work better with women in bikinis shaking all over the place. I guess that's true of any music really.
Oops. Haven't had my coffee yet.
Yes there has. Samuel Chase. But he was acquitted.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Chase
The first part is true, but Samuel Chase was impeached and acquitted around 1805.
Yat's absolutely correct. Hence, I propose that corporations be granted 5th Amendment rights just like any other person. We can't have it both ways.
Bill Moyers said recently "I'll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one".
Alito: "What business does a case like that [12 Nigerians suing a Dutch firm] have in the courts of the United States?"
Alito goes on to state that the ATS was originated to protect the rights of foreign diplomats living in the U.S.
I guess the Supreme Court.
the fact remains corporations want all the benefits of person-hood without the responsibility and liability. Typical entitlement mentality.
Be that as it may, the idea that corporations - made of people - want to be better off shouldn't be shocking - since that's in the nature of people.
The fact remains that artificial personhood doesn't come close to providing all the benefits of natural personhood.
Only the ones that have to do with buying power and elections.
I do think that lobbyists serve a useful function, but would prefer that they were unable to contribute or direct a single dime to any elected official or candidate.
I'll start believing most of this board when you take a similar stance, not when you only howl when your ox is being gored.
Why is it that when you say "artificial personhood" I immediately think of Mitt Romney?
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Why is it when you say artificial personhood, I immediately think of blow up sex dolls? Oh wait, I know.