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Jeff Danziger

Jeff Danziger

Posted: January 23, 2010 11:30 AM

United Corporations of America

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realitytrumpsbull
two 'alves of coconut!
11:27 PM on 01/23/2010
But wait, there's more, now the prison system is going private, too.
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Decorina
Hypocrisy means your karma ran over your dogma
02:58 PM on 01/24/2010
It is already mostly private.
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WASanford
I think, therefore I am mad as hell!
02:32 PM on 01/23/2010
Try to remember that none of us can be forced to do business with any corporation that tries to out shout the American people nor is there any way we have to vote for their candidates. If we have too, we have the power to boycott any one of them out of existence.

Most of all, we should be reaching out to the mushroom people, educating them of what we're about and convincing them to join us. This should or hopefully will only make us stronger!
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01:29 PM on 01/23/2010
Where to start the discussion of redress?





How can we actualize and/or crystalize the peoples' voice to enunciate an instigation of reconciliation?



How can we instigate representation (national, non-special interest) reform; how far back do we need to look in the constitution to begin a new abstraction of representation?



Will this be ill afforded later on; is there impact unforeseen that will diminish the justification of this decision?



Will consumer empowerment rival corporate political excavation? (GDP vs a hording of arbitrary oppportunity).



Should corporations be allowed to be selective citizens or should the be bestowed with ALL the rights and responsibilities of those included in the statement "We the people." (Do coroparations get exeptions from jury duty?)



Where was the question of whether a corporation should have isolated rights originated at.



It is relatively clear how corporations now effect policy, but how do we appropriate checks and accomidations for their influence on policy and thus the people. Are corporations a legitamate source of political collateral?



What is the correct response and is there any recourse?



What are the responsibilities of citizenship (corporate) and what are the social contract implcations?
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Decorina
Hypocrisy means your karma ran over your dogma
12:52 PM on 01/23/2010
Corporate personhood is where it all began. Why do corporations have all of the benefits and none of the negatives of "personhood"? If they kill someone do they go to jail? They exist in perpetuity; real people actually die. It is a very slippery slope and the SCOTUS is picking up speed...
12:42 PM on 01/23/2010
A diarist named Smintheus posted on unbossed.com a very quick and simply remedy for this power-grab by corporations;

Congress should prohibit any corporation from engaging in this new political spending if it has any non-American shareholders, or owners. Because after all, foreigners have no 1st amendment protections."

This brilliant idea was picked up by a diarist named PLS who posted the diary "How to hoist the SCOTUS on their own petards!!!" today, 1/23/10, on Daily Kos. This stroke of genius not only undoes SCOTUS' treasonous decision, it seriously weakens the hold corporations CURRENTLY have over our democracy.

This is THE way to punish SCOTUS and the Republicans for attempting a coup on our government on behalf of corporations.
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01:30 PM on 01/23/2010
I perfer a 50% tax on all 24 hour cable stations