POCLAD: Why (we need to) Abolish All Corporate Constitutional Rights

[marmar]

from the Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy:




Why Abolish All Corporate Constitutional Rights


The Program on Corporations, Law & Democracy (POCLAD, www.poclad.org) has educated, advocated and organized for the past 15 years against the rights of corporations to govern. Through historical and legal research, writings, speaking, workshops and strategic discussions, we helped build widespread awareness of what we called "corporate personhood" - the corporate acquisition of constitutional rights intended solely for natural persons that have usurped the rights of We the People to govern ourselves. We worked on this issue before it was popular, fashionable or newsworthy.

Corporations are creations of the state. As we documented in many resources over many years, they couldn't exist in any form without the legal sanctioning of government. Since citizens are the source of all legitimate power in any representative democracy, We the People have the power to define corporations any way we see fit. We the People have rights and authority. Originally, corporations only possessed privileges bestowed by the state.

The appointed-for-life US Supreme Court "found" corporations in numerous places in the US Constitution over the past 124 years. These "findings" gave rights to corporations, including many of those in the Bill of Rights. In other words, illegitimate corporate power didn't begin in 2010. The corporate perversion of rights and the Constitution have resulted in the destruction of our communities, economy, politics and natural world in many ways for a very long time.

POCLAD believes ALL corporate constitutional rights should be abolished. These include at least the following:

* 1st Amendment Free Speech rights. Corporations use these rights, meant to protect human beings from the power of the state, to influence elections through political "contributions" (more like "investments"); to advertise for guns, tobacco and other dangerous products over the objections of communities; to avoid having to label genetically modified foods. .........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.poclad.org/?pg=By_What_Authority&show=b101119.txt

[bpcmxr]

1. Thank you marmar!

Excellent find.

[northoftheborder]

2. Thanks for info on Poclad. Bookmarked.

[marmar]

7. And here's another site you might be interested in:

www.reclaimdemocracy.org

[eppur_se_muova]

3. K&R&B nt

[DCKit]

4. All of the Rights, but None of the Accountability.

i.e., a corporation can't be put to death. In too many cases, they can't even be sued - only the individuals employed by corporations enjoy THAT "freedom".

[rfranklin]

5. The founding Fathers intended that they could be put to death...

by revocation of their charters. Of course, Delaware gave them everlasting life (like vampires) by letting them all incorporate there and not be subjected to review or oversight of any type.

[marmar]

6. Yup.

The sham of democracy.

[Swamp Rat]

8. k&r

[Occulus]

9. k&r

Corporations should have only privileges, revocable or limited by the public on a whim.

They, corporations, are not people. They should have no rights.