Occupy Wall Street protest

[Prospero]

Yep - starting with changing the rules which allow a corporation to be counted as an individual

[BellaBellucci]

Yep - starting with changing the rules which allow a corporation to be counted as an individual

I talked about this earlier in the thread I believe. Or maybe it was on my other board?! I'm high. I don't remember.

Corporate personhood - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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[Prospero]

I talked about this earlier in the thread I believe. Or maybe it was on my other board?! I'm high. I don't remember.

Corporate personhood - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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well I think we are in agreement on this. Of course I am just watching all this from across the water.

[BellaBellucci]

well I think we are in agreement on this. Of course I am just watching all this from across the water.

Oh, don't worry, you got it right. Just imagine that the corporations are rich tricks and the U.S. government is a high-priced call girl. Also remember that the 'U.S. Government' is in fact a corporation itself.



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[lisaparadise]

Hey Lisa you were right about this thing spreading ,it's now happening in london

ya it only shows me how really stupid people are these days,its not like the war protest in the 60s or MLK protesting all men are created equil oh no these nutjobs dont even know why there there lol ask 100 people who are there and you get 100 different answers its a joke.here in Canada we hardly had a recession and were the first to pull out of in yet these dipshits have the nerve to protest in my country now that really really really pisses me off.

[lisaparadise]

The government is the people. Do you feel like you have too much power? Large corporations conspire to attenuate government power; i.e. your power to protect your water, your air, your commons.

not exactly the truth little woman,traditionally the people who have raised the most money run the whitehouse thats just how it is yet you americans cant see that.

[Silcc69]

not exactly the truth little woman,traditionally the people who have raised the most money run the whitehouse thats just how it is yet you americans cant see that.

Shit I see it loud and clear. There is clearly too much money involved in politics and not enough people.

[Stavros]

Yep - starting with changing the rules which allow a corporation to be counted as an individual

Prospero you may be aware that there has been a lively debate for some years about the concept of Corporate Citizenship -there is a fair summary in Wikipedia here:
Corporate citizenship - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

it is a difficult one to grasp because of the different laws that a corporation might then become liable to; consider the complexities, and the time involved in reaching a settlement with Union Carbide over the Bhopal disaster, although many were not satisfied at all with that.
Then there is the additional concept of corporate social responsibility where, for example, a corporation invests in a local community adjacent to its operations.

The idea that the State is a person has been around since the Montevideo Convention of 1933, but is not the same thing.

[Prospero]

I was aware indeed Stavros.

[trish]

And therein lies the problem. The government hasn't been the people for decades, hence IMO, the chart is correct.

I think I just figured out what should be the Occupiers' key issue: campaign finance reform.

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I have to diagree. Our public officials from the president down through both houses to your alderman are elected. If someone remains in office it's the will of the electorate. Of course you can complain that the electorate is stupid or being lied to; but that's another matter. The point is that diminishing the power of our elected officials to tax and regulate only attenuates our power and amplifies that of the large coporatations which wish neither be taxed nor regulated.