I, for One, Welcome Our Superhuman Overlords

Imagine, if you will, a person that can conceivably live forever. Who sometimes grows stronger with age. A person so substantial that presidents and kings will act sycophantic towards that person, even after major insults and threats to the countries they preside over. One who can mobilize millions, at will, to work against their own interests. A person that can ruin millions of lives or kill thousands of people with an inadvertent mistake; a mistake made not out of maliciousness, but because those millions or thousands just didn’t matter as much as a slight increase in profits. Envision herculeans so powerful that after devastating entire economies and stealing hundreds of billions of dollars, it is the victims who pay the costs and the victims who are asked to be contrite and responsible. Now, who wants to fight these behemoths? Not me – I’m going to line up with Beck and others to kiss their collective asses.

I’m talking of course about our good neighbors, the corporations - specifically, the multi-nationals. Now, everyone, or almost everyone, acknowledges that corporations serve a necessary purpose. People realize that corporations do some good and they are large enough to handle tasks that are too much for an individual to handle. But where Beck, Limbaugh, all of right-wing and main stream media – and myself, now – have a problem, is when unreasonable people try to put limits on said corporations. That is not going to happen if these super-humans have to buy almost every damn politician in the country. And they have a good head start on those purchases, already. Thank you very much, Supreme Court.

Why human, one may ask? Well, for one thing, the Court Reporter J.C. Bancroft Davis said so in his headnote for the 1886 case, Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad, which was subsequently backed up by the Supreme Court numerous times. Since then corporations have been people, with rights granted to people under the 14th Amendment. The Court stated that, a corporation is a “person” for both due process and equal protection in 1889. In 1893 under Noble v. Union River Logging, corporations were granted 5th Amendment protections. In 1906 under Hale v. Henkel, they were granted 4th Amendment protections. In 1908, 6th Amendment protections were granted. In 1936, under Grosjean v. American Press Co. corporations were granted 1st Amendment protections. The personhood protections went on like this until the coup de grace for the “corporations are property crowd,” the Citizens United v.FEC case in 2010. Now there was a decision that put government in the hands of those who know how to find good bargains when shopping for democracy.

Why super, one may ask? That’s simple. These “persons” have the rights of other people in the country - but not the responsibilities that restrict mere mortals. By definition, corporations are “an aggregate of individuals who voluntarily get together for the purposes of convenience, efficiency, and limited liability to conduct a business.” Limited liability, but not limited rights. As a biological human, one can criticize the government, or another biological person, if that criticism is true. But that same person cannot criticize the food industry in print or broadcast, unless they are willing to pay a price, regardless of the facts involved. So says the food libel laws of thirteen states. If a biological person poisons an entire town, lake, river or area, that may or may not have caused deaths, that person will be looking at one hell of a jail sentence, at least. Not so if you’re a superhuman. Not only will there be no jail time, but since the Superfund is not funded by the polluters anymore, the likely outcome is that the victims, the taxpayers, will pay for the cleanup. And there are over twelve hundred of those Superfund sites for the mortals to clean up. Monsanto alone is a veritable case study in crimes and no punishment. And you try and collect billions from Uncle Sam while living in a P.O. Box on the Cayman Islands like Halliburton. (Even after poisoning our soldiers in Iraq.) It can’t be done, by an individual. Hell, BP isn’t even a US superhuman, and it can still mobilize a good percentage of our politicians to fight for its right to lie and pollute with only a fraction of actual costs imposed.

So, while others are fighting to bring corporations more in line with what the founders intended, to make corporations serve the public good. (As Thomas Jefferson said, “I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.”) I’m going to join the corporation’s foot soldiers, the Teabaggers and fight hard against mine and my country’s interests.

Now, off to get my instructions.

:scared:

PS: it may be the whisky... :+

that may end an important protection against corporate law breakers.
It's important, but it's getting almost no press.

http://articles.latimes.com/2010/nov/05/business/la-fi-lazarus-20101105

keep being the press!

And he was a left winger. The only drawback is that he's a left winger of the authoritarian kind, like Stalin except with superpowers and is unkillable.

This was his 2008 platform:

I do not take orders. I give them. Congress shall no longer have the ability to impeach me or override my decisions, and the Supreme Court shall not meddle in government affairs.

Your freedom will be expanded. You will be even more free to give your money and lives to me, and to be my eternal subjects.

Eliminate the Iraq War. The Iraq War has shifted $187 billion to the defense industry. How is this "defense industry" to kneel before me? Are my praises to be sung as footnotes in their paperwork? You will stop giving these corporations your wealth. I suggest you put the money into your own schools and health care, so that I may have intelligent, healthy servants. I will indulge your wishes if you all want a Westernized, unpopular regime in Iraq, and I too shall gloat in its troubles, but it will not be done at my expense.

Universal health care. Even a criminal like myself is shocked that millions are not able to get health insurance and cannot pay for basic surgery. Who are these power brokers that allow the pigpen to become wormy and filthy? I demand your very lives, but I am not such an imbecile as to institutionalize suffering and poverty. You have my assurance that this shall change swiftly.

Corporate reform. You people have become disgusting minions to these things you call "corporations". These things take your money and your land, put you into debt, send your jobs overseas, provide you with unsafe foods, and sue you when you say anything bad about them. Yet you people fatten them up at the ballot box. You give them free land, name your stadiums after them, allow them to telemarket you, and even sacrifice your own bankruptcy protections. Quite frankly it astonishes me. I will break this sickly codependency. It is I who shall be your ruler. I shall empower you with wealth to give me as tribute. A corporation cannot bow to me or give me tribute that comes from the heart.

You will buy U.S. made items. Why do you buy Chinese-made items when you know that it sells out the jobs of your family and friends? How will you buy those cheap things when you have no job? You are sending my wealth and tribute to foreign lands. I will not tolerate this.

Vote Zod!

http://www.zod2008.com/

You really can't go wrong.

this is scary true.

How can we possibly win against them? They are Goliath and we not only aren't David, we are barely even ants.

Even united (truly citizens united) we could not possibly raise the kind of money they throw around.

What can we do? Anyone?

Thanks.

hit them in their pocket books en masse...?

too many tentacles

go into your laundry aisle and look at the parent company.

look at your cleaning supplies and to the same

these multinationals are insidious. they are in everything we do.

when the trucks slowed to a crawl when gas went over $4, amazingly the price dropped...

So few have even a bare hint of what has happened over the last 30 - 40 years, they know it all went wrong but can't grasp how.
:kick: & R

Edit; Too late to rec. :(

20score, you did your homework on this one. I'm distributing it, with your permission of course.

The baggers have no idea for whom they're carrying water.

too late to recommend! phooey!