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ashling

(25,771 posts) Wed Apr 23, 2014, 11:50 AM Apr 2014

Corporate rule more intrusive than "big government"

T knew a guy in graduate school who said "the government can put me in jail, a corporation can't" That was, so he said, his reasoning for his brand of libertarianism.

I told him not to be so sure about that.

The last I know he was writing a paper on repealing the 17th Amendment.

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Corporate rule more intrusive than "big government" (Original Post) ashling Apr 2014 OP

With respect to the national surveillance state and the military industrial complex, Maedhros Apr 2014 #1

Maedhros

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1. With respect to the national surveillance state and the military industrial complex,

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Wed Apr 23, 2014, 01:20 PM

Apr 2014

there is no longer any meaningful separation of Government and Corporations. For all intents and purposes, they are essentially the same entity when it comes to military or security matters.

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