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    Ruling Allows Corporations to Give Their Money Away More Freely

    By The Decider on Fri, 05/27/2011 - 3:31pm |

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    A US District judge has just ruled that corporations may now give their money directly to political candidates.  I think that we can rejoice that this new era of corporate generosity and philanthropy will enrich the lives of many.

    But in a larger sense, this ruling is helpful in finally laying to rest the discrimination and bias that have been practiced against corporations for years. Our corporate citizens have just as many rights as our more traditional, human citizens. After all, the term "corporation" means to have a human skin, or something like that.

    But we have not reached the end yet. Still, corporations are being deprived of the right to vote. Extending free speech to them is of little value if they cannot exercise their speech through the ballot box. And I think that they should get as many votes as they have customers, not just as many employees are in the company. After all, when we buy GE, we are a part of GE.

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    "Our corporate citizens have just as many rights as our more traditional, human citizens."

    Rights with less obligations to one another.

    Individuals are held to a higher level of accouintablity.

    In an eye for an eye culture,, a culture of someones going to pay; whose eye is at risk in the Corporation?  


    by Resistance on Fri, 05/27/2011 - 5:38pm

    All corporations are created equal and endowed with certain inalienable rights that among them are:

    Total and unfettered government control

    Freedom to lie as much as they wish on MSM

    Freedom to own MSM and operate it in any manner they may desire.

    Ability to move operations to enemy countries in order to make more money off of slave labor.

    After all Corporation comes from the Latin meaning:

    Money hungry bastards who destroy anything they cannot eat.

     


    by Richard Day on Fri, 05/27/2011 - 5:57pm

    They are also permitted to marry now. 


    by we are stardust on Fri, 05/27/2011 - 6:32pm

    I'm not sure these kinds of loose corporate laws are gonna withstand challenge in some of the more religious states. After all, they've got some pre-existing laws on the books against sodomy.

    by quinn esq on Fri, 05/27/2011 - 7:15pm

    LOL!  But aha!  Maybe not corporate sodomy!  They may see it as an entirely different animal! 

    Like la Chupacabra!     

    (always must be said in a hoarse stage-whisper...)


    by we are stardust on Fri, 05/27/2011 - 8:55pm

    hahahahahahahah

    I am attempting to translate this....hahahahahahahahahahahah

    We are all getting this in the ......

    OKAY THEN!

    HAHAHAHAHAHAH

    i hereby render unto the Q the Dayly Line of the Day Award for this here Dagblog Site, given to all of him from all of me. hahahahaha


    by Richard Day on Fri, 05/27/2011 - 10:33pm

    hahahahahahhahahhhah


    by Richard Day on Fri, 05/27/2011 - 10:31pm

    What if 100% of us citizens got together and formed a corporation, and then decided to have it fund candidates and lobby Congress. What do you think our chances would be? I'm sure it would take some time, but sooner or later we'd get a foothold in there, doncha think?

    by quinn esq on Fri, 05/27/2011 - 7:12pm

    We're to honest.

    Why does a man spend millions and millions to run for a job that pays a few thousand?

    Civic duty?  hahahahahahahaha 


    by Resistance on Fri, 05/27/2011 - 7:29pm

    That is the answer Resitance.

    I said in some other context...

    I GIVE UP.

    HA!


    by Richard Day on Fri, 05/27/2011 - 10:34pm