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09 Feb 2012 11:50 pm
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Here is a very interesting article about how corporations hijacked the 14th Amendment (meant to secure the political rights of former slaves) in an attempt to establish corporate personhood.The Fourteenth Amendment offered an opportunity to advance corporate interests, and the corporate attorneys se...
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09 Feb 2012 11:31 pm
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Misty: Cite the SCOTUS ruling where corporations were declared 'people' and were said to be entitled to the same Constitutional rights as individuals.U.S. Supreme Court LOUISVILLE, C. & C. R. CO. v. LETSON, 43 U.S. 497 (1844) 43 U.S. 497 (How.) THE LOUISVILLE, CINCINNATI, AND CHARLESTON RAILROAD...
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09 Feb 2012 11:06 pm
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How about answering my question, moonbat. Are you advocating we be able to violate unions' free speech? If not, why not? Are unions "people?"What I'm advocating is that no entity or person should be allowed to donate obscene amounts of money in secret to super PACS. Please explain to me how that i...
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Protectionist
09 Feb 2012 10:46 pm
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RichClem, on 11 March 2011 - 03:48 PM, said:"Meanwhile The Chosen One and Democrats are running a $1.6 trillion deficit and refusing to cut spending." Meanwhile, Congressional Republicans are running a $1.6 trillion deficit and refusing to restore taxes on the rich to their NORMAL levels of most o...
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RichClem
09 Feb 2012 03:04 pm
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So why have they enjoyed those rights?Cite the SCOTUS ruling where corporations were declared 'people' and were said to be entitled to the same Constitutional rights as individuals.I won't hold my breath.U.S. Supreme Court LOUISVILLE, C. & C. R. CO. v. LETSON, 43 U.S. 497 (1844) 43 U.S. 497 (H...
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White Bread
09 Feb 2012 02:53 pm
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[quote name='MistyBlue' timestamp='1328808689' post='2434339']Please cite me the part of the Constitution where it says that corporations have the same rights as individual people.[/quote]I have no problem with corporations not being given personhood. That way, there would be no legitimate mechanism...
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RichClem
09 Feb 2012 02:28 pm
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This woman cheated on her boyfriend, and got pregnant. The boyfriend got pissed, so she cried rape.Now, I wonder if Clem will call Greg Kelly a rapist?If she has four contemporaneous witnesses who saw her trauma and badly bitten lip and heard her story immediately afterward, including a nurse w...
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Nobody
09 Feb 2012 02:07 pm
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NYPD Commissioner's Son Cleared of Rape ChargesNEW YORK Greg Kelly, the NYC police commissioner's son, has been cleared of the prospect of criminal charges of raping a woman he met for a drink, and will return to his job as host of a popular local morning TV talk show this week, his station said.Gr...
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RichClem
09 Feb 2012 12:13 pm
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How about answering my question, moonbat. Are you advocating we be able to violate unions' free speech? If not, why not? Are unions "people?"Well gosh, screw the Constitution then.Please cite me the part of the Constitution where it says that corporations have the same rights as individual people....
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Oldschool
09 Feb 2012 11:47 am
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Please cite me the part of the Constitution where it says that corporations have the same rights as individual people.So why have they enjoyed those rights?Cite the SCOTUS ruling where corporations were declared 'people' and were said to be entitled to the same Constitutional rights as individuals.I...
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