Beware the corporate state.........Quotes

[marmar]

"There is no war on crime. There is no war on drugs, no war on terrorism. There is only the ongoing effort by the federal government to collect as much information on as many people as possible."

— Jim Redden

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"Americans cannot teach democracy to the world until they restore their own."

— William Greider

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"... the United States has given frequent and enthusiastic support to the overthrow of democracy in favor of 'investor friendly' regimes.

"The World Bank, IMF, and private banks have consistently lavished huge sums on terror regimes, following their displacement of democratic governments, and a number of quantitative studies have shown a systematic positive relationship between U.S. and IMF/World Bank aid to countries and their violations of human rights."

— Edward S. Herman

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"There seems to be nothing to prevent the transnational corporations taking possession of the planet and subjecting humanity to the dictatorship of capital.... In order to crush any thought of organized resistance to the supporters of the new world order, tremendous police and military forces are being used to establish a doctrine of repression...."

— Christian la Brie

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"Governments need armies to protect them against their enslaved and oppressed subjects."

— Leo Tolstoy

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"It is only when the factory workers refuse to make the stuff (poisonous herbicides), it is only when the loggers refuse to cut ancient trees, that we can ever hope for real and lasting change.

"This system cannot be stopped by force. It is violent and ruthless beyond the capacity of any people's resistance movement. The only way I can even imagine stopping it is through massive non-cooperation."

— Judi Bari

[azul]

1. What went wrong with human legal systems and laws

that give more rights and benefits to corporations and capital than to living things?

The human frailties of distrust and selfishness are all too readily exploitable for capital gain and political maneuvering by financial interests - the wealthy and corporate persons.

People disrespect and fear each other, life is cheapened, and greed and selfishness are glorified because of the dominion of business rights over those of living peoples.

The way out of this descending nightmare is a nonviolent re-writing of the rules of capital, and legislating a change of the legal status of fictitious persons.

There is none at the helm of privateer pirate ships but a skull and crossbones.

[marmar]

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