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LongTomH (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 12:44 PM Original message |
Wolf-PAC to fight Corporate Personhood |
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valerief (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 12:54 PM Response to Original message |
1. Maybe all we need is for a court clerk to declare corporations are not people. |
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LongTomH (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 01:47 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Actually, the 'backstory' of corporate personhood is a bit more complicated. |
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valerief (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 02:19 PM Response to Reply #2 |
13. Well, the court reporter made it happen and the courts subsequently cited the error as precedent. nt |
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Exultant Democracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 01:49 PM Response to Original message |
3. Go Cenk TYT Army time to mount up. |
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jwirr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 01:54 PM Response to Original message |
4. That is something that would really help take our elections back. |
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Lionessa (842 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 01:57 PM Response to Reply #4 |
6. The amendment shouldn't be written to focus on elections as it is, but |
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jwirr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 02:01 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. Yes, I agree with that because they just plain are NOT persons. To |
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Lionessa (842 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 01:55 PM Response to Original message |
5. I like the idea but the actual Amendment sucks big ones and needs to be |
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Initech (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 02:00 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. Agreed - the wording definitely needs to be better. |
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rhett o rick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 02:16 PM Response to Reply #5 |
11. I agree. I bet he gets some legal help before it goes very far. nm |
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musiclawyer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 02:16 PM Response to Reply #5 |
12. Better yet |
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Lionessa (842 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 02:26 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. I don't like something about your wording, but you're totally correct that |
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LongTomH (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 02:33 PM Response to Reply #5 |
17. Move to Amend has been working to get an amendment that's more specific about corporate personhood |
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hlthe2b (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 02:12 PM Response to Original message |
9. Is this who is sending all the "Run with the Wolfies" emails? |
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Ikonoklast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 02:14 PM Response to Original message |
10. And have the CEO of any corporation held out as the personification of the corporation. |
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Lionessa (842 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 02:28 PM Response to Reply #10 |
15. I don't agree because corporations can't break the law, that takes |
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Ikonoklast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 02:52 PM Response to Reply #15 |
18. Sucks to be him, then. |
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Lionessa (842 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 02:57 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. Wow, and you claim to be a Dem? He has to prove his innocence? WTF |
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Ikonoklast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 03:19 PM Response to Reply #19 |
20. If he was SET UP, as you said, he could prove otherwise. |
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Lionessa (842 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 04:20 PM Response to Reply #20 |
21. Please find anywhere that I've defended a corporation, it was an inidividual's right to " innocent |
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Ikonoklast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 05:49 PM Response to Reply #21 |
24. I see you've never been a defendant in this country |
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Lionessa (842 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 05:51 PM Response to Reply #24 |
25. Being treated as though they are guilty until proven innocent, as you seem to promote. |
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mmonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 02:33 PM Response to Original message |
16. Love the name. |
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Uncle Joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 04:28 PM Response to Original message |
22. Kicked and recommended. |
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Bandit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 04:53 PM Response to Original message |
23. Wolf Pack |
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