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to ban public review of the 'TRADE SECRET,' PROPRIETARY programming code with which they are now 'counting' all our votes. That is, NONE!
We're talking about global corporate predators, not small business people. U.S.-based and foreign-based global corporate predators--including massively powerful banks and investment firms, all of which are now "global" (have no loyalty to the American people and to this country) and including the wealthy sheiks of Saudi Arabia and the new fascists of China--some of the biggest commercial property owners in our country--who have deliberately DESTROYED our traditional downtowns, where the members of local American communities used to see, meet and interact with each other--our town squares--and have usurped whole streets, whole blocks and whole neighborhoods that once had public sidewalks and roads, or huge chunks of our open spaces, and have received huge tax breaks and numerous other benefits--including taxpayer supported roads, sidewalks, water/electricity infrastructure, fire/police protection, and even costs of construction, from corrupt local, state and federal politicians, and have thus attempted to close off and privatize our commons AT OUR EXPENSE.
Anybody who falls for this crap that global corporate predators have any "rights" here whatsoever is a fool, and profoundly misunderstands the founders of our country and the patriots of the American Revolution, who were rebelling against the British GLOBAL BUSINESS MONOPOLY that oppressed them, and who had such fear of corporate business power interfering with democracy that they almost banned corporations in the Constitution (but compromised on giving power over corporate charters to the states, which Jefferson felt would be closer to the people, who would prevent overweening business power and big monopolies). Jefferson & co. would be appalled at what corporations have become--their immensity, their monopolies, their gobbling up of our land, and their Pope-like power over our laws, our political representatives, our news media and our lives, and their global nature, often moving their headquarters, manufacturing and jobs from the U.S. to foreign countries, or invading us with foreign-based companies and products that destroy local businesses. It's as if, after throwing off the British East India Company, we somehow became the victims and peons of a THOUSAND East India Companies.
Corporations have no rights. They are state-chartered business consortiums that operate BY PERMISSION OF THE PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTRY, and are supposed to operate in the public interest. That our corrupt politicians fail to make them do so is a political not a legal or constitutional question. And they use "the little guys'" feelings of protection and right to privacy with regard to homes and small businesses as cover for extending PERSONAL rights to cover GLOBAL CORPORATE PREDATOR 'RIGHTS.' 'Rights' they do NOT possess in a democracy in which THE PEOPLE are the ONLY SOVEREIGN ENTITY.
Someone upthread was ranting about invasion of his home--as if that is the same as a shopping mall--and, boy, do the Corporate Rulers have HIM by the short hairs! AT&T routinely monitors his phone calls, internet use and emails, in secret, on behalf of the Bush Junta--and he's worried about CORPORATIONS' "PRIVATE PROPERTY RIGHTS"?!
Well, I guess he's bought into this upside down, inside out, backwards "Alice in Wonderland" BushWorld we're all forced to live in, in which a corporation can assert, in a court of law, that public review of their 'TRADE SECRET' vote counting code--even in a case of 18,000 Democratic votes for Congress 'disappeared' by their voting machines, throwing the election to the Republican by 350 votes--VIOLATES THEIR 'RIGHT' TO PROFIT FROM OUR ELECTIONS! --and the Jebbite judge (in Florida) AGREED WITH THEM!
Their "right" to profit from our elections TRUMPS the right of the voters to know how their votes were counted!
Their "right" to profit from PUBLIC-supported infrastructure for PUBLIC shopping malls--CLOSED OVER PUBLIC SPACES THAT HAVE REPLACED SIDEWALKS AND DOWNTOWNS--trumps the First Amendment!
Be meek little sheep and agree with this crap--and defend the Corporate Rulers as if you were defending your home--if that's the kind of country you want to live in. But if you want to live in a democracy, TAKE YOUR POWER BACK FROM THE CORPORATE RULERS WHO ARE DESTROYING US!
Think it through, friends. Consider the corporatization of our MINDS, as well as everything else.
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