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cascadiance

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24. They nor corporations are NOT "natural persons" and aren't given rights by the 14th amendment...
Tue Jan 5, 2016, 08:36 PM
Jan 2016

... that should only be accorded to natural persons. This isn't about the 1st amendment. It is what is a "person" and who has rights that are designed for NATURAL (not artificial) persons that has been construed by corrupted court officials such as the ex-railroad exec court clerk that tried to infer that the Supreme Court ruled in that "landmark case" that supposedly gave corporations rights of natural persons then.

If we want to give corporations and other NON-HUMAN entities (that in most other parts of our constitution are referred to as artificial persons) certain rights, there should be separate legislation apart from things like the Bill of Rights that give them their own set of rights. That is where organizations can be given equivalent or even more rights than corporations do as the ARTIFICIAL persons they are.

This mess started when the 14th amendment wasn't as specific as it should have been when in one paragraph it referred to "persons" without qualifying it as "natural persons" which it was designed to be about, since it was an amendment trying to give discriminated against immigrants and minority natural persons certain rights that they might not otherwise have gotten. The corporate corruptors have over time tried to use that to give us a fascist state with corporations (and those who own them) more rights than the rest of us. And those that try to rationalize that corporate personhood is justified because some "rights" can be applied to other organizations are falling in to their trap either stupidly or complicitly.

Bernie Sanders TSIAS Jan 2016 #1
Let them add it to the 'the record' vkkv Jan 2016 #2
Either of them gwheezie Jan 2016 #3
Yes, Hillary won't jeopardize Roe, ... JustABozoOnThisBus Jan 2016 #13
+1 cui bono Jan 2016 #32
The early voting doesn't look good for the Hillary Forum where they vkkv Jan 2016 #4
Someone that doesn't like debate JackInGreen Jan 2016 #10
That's quite ironic Art_from_Ark Jan 2016 #11
Oh that is priceless, especially the 'Billary' comment. Kentonio Jan 2016 #20
How earth DID you find THIS from 2008 ?? vkkv Jan 2016 #22
I kind of stumbled on that a few months ago Art_from_Ark Jan 2016 #28
Probably Bernie Kalidurga Jan 2016 #5
This message was self-deleted by its author vkkv Jan 2016 #6
Let's see, at this point 88 views..18 votes.. that is 70 Hillary supporters who are afraid to say vkkv Jan 2016 #7
Bernie - 3 to 1 at this point - Hillary Forum fans can .. you know what! vkkv Jan 2016 #8
Definitely would pick a justice that would reverse "corporate personhood" decisions... cascadiance Jan 2016 #9
Actually, Bernie's position on CU, appropriately, is much narrower than that onenote Jan 2016 #17
Corporate Personhood is larger than Citizen's United... cascadiance Jan 2016 #18
Do you think the NAACP, MoveON, DU, and unions should not be protected by the First Amendment? onenote Jan 2016 #23
They nor corporations are NOT "natural persons" and aren't given rights by the 14th amendment... cascadiance Jan 2016 #24
So you would have allowed the NY Times to be prosecuted onenote Jan 2016 #25
Sorry, but the Bill of Rights was designed for NATURAL persons, not artificial persons... cascadiance Jan 2016 #26
The "press" could be an individual. You can't have it both ways onenote Jan 2016 #30
The press itself is mentioned specifically in the constitution. Corporations are not! cascadiance Jan 2016 #33
the reason we have a first amendment is that we cannot trust the legislature to protect speech onenote Jan 2016 #34
The flaw in your argument anigbrowl Jan 2016 #35
The flaw in your argument... cascadiance Jan 2016 #36
Get real. anigbrowl Jan 2016 #37
Then I guess you must just love the Hobby Lobby decision if you love corporate personhood rights! cascadiance Jan 2016 #40
Oh please anigbrowl Jan 2016 #41
corporate personhood is centuries old and not going away Recursion Jan 2016 #44
NO, there is NO reason we can't have LEGISLATED LAW to permit them being sued... cascadiance Jan 2016 #45
Sorry, you must have replied to the wrong post Recursion Jan 2016 #46
The reality is that there wouldn't be much difference in who they would pick onenote Jan 2016 #12
This, plus firebrand80 Jan 2016 #14
I agree Enrique Jan 2016 #38
Both. n/t Nonhlanhla Jan 2016 #15
I think both would do an equivalently good job el_bryanto Jan 2016 #16
Not even close. 99Forever Jan 2016 #19
Hillary Forum can't be happy about THESE results! vkkv Jan 2016 #21
The democratic president.... AuntPatsy Jan 2016 #27
I think either would select fine nominees TeddyR Jan 2016 #29
ACTUAL kindergarteners would nominate better SC justices than the GOP Congress. Ken Burch Jan 2016 #31
Their picks would probably be identical or close to it DFW Jan 2016 #39
Pretty much. Recursion Jan 2016 #43
Meh. There's a fixed set they're drawing from Recursion Jan 2016 #42
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