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Joe Chi Minh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-10-10 05:38 PM
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16. Doesn't he mean, Stockholders United versus the rest of the electorate?
L'Etat, c'est nous!

Why should not the rest of the citizenry in the person of the real Citizens United be given natural personhood under the law, to countervail against that of the newly-designated Stockholders United - thus nullifying this weirdly factitious, legal/natural personhood with which corporations have been invested?

I had not realised that genetic engineering and cloning had made such epoch-making advances. Will Monsanto never be satisfied? Surely, the claim of the real Citizens United to such status under the law is immeasurably more compelling than that of Stockholders United.

Were not conservatives supposed to be concerned about public morality, and rightly so. Yet, here we have one J Kennedy on the Bench of the Supreme Court legislating for the protection of what are universally acknowledged, even by their most zealous sponsors, such as Milton Friedman and Greenspan, to be entities by definition of complete ethical vacuity, corporate psychopaths, whose sole obligation is simply to generate ever-greater profits, 'devil take the hindmost'. Even patriotism, loyalty to country, is foreign to them; they have no country. And these corporations are to be endowed with a human personality; an act normally the prerogative of God, himself. Lucifer must be envious. Such extraordinary presumption! God is not mocked.
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