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In reply to the discussion: Scalia Suggests Women Have No Right to Contraception [View all]TahitiNut
(71,611 posts)... I strongly suspect that the legalistic elevation of the political stature of corporations is mirrored globally as well, and is not primarily a US phenomenon. I must note that the highest priority of the Bush/Cheney regime in both Iraq and Afghanistan was to establish the corporate system of (legal) entitlements in the "supreme law of the land." Also in both instances (Iraq and Afghanistan), the hand-picked political leadership was/is immersed in the global corporatist mindset. Indeed, I can see nothing that was done with more thoroughness than infesting both legal systems with the 'hooks' for corporate entitlement.
It's very important to realize that corporations are legal fictions, owing their very existence to the laws and government enforcement thereof in each and every country. They cannot exist or even engage in any kind of activity, even business 'commerce,' without such laws and their enforcement by the state.
Government is Dr. Frankenstein (with good intentions) and corporations are the monsters.
Abby Normal.