Free Enterprise is Unconstitutional.

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In light of recent politics, and false ideas of indentured servitude, communism, death panels, cradle to grave nanny state-hood, and allusions to martial law and nazi-Germany, I’d like to present a parallel to a government regulating insurance: a real, unimagined threat: CORPORATE RULE. People may fear the government, but they are allowed to participate in their government. They are not allowed to participate in what corporations do. http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=7E3A3897A9E0B79F “Quoting” from the movie “The Corporation”, here’s a synopsis: 1 – Shows the public’s anger over big corporations being the dominant institution. It shows news anchors and politicians saying it is a few bad apples, the headline makers: (Enron, Kmart, Xerox, Worldcom, etc) and 95% of corporations are ethical. 2– “Corporations started out as an association of people chartered by a state to perform some function with stipulations. It was a gift from the people to serve the public good.” Corporate lawyers saw they need more power to operate and wanted to remove some of the constraints that had been historically placed on them.” “The 14th Amendment gave equal rights to blacks. ‘No state can deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.’ intended to protect freed slaves. Corporate lawyers would say ‘we (a corporation) are a person.’ The supreme court goes along with that. Between 1890 and 1910, 307 cases were brought before the court under the 14th amendment. 288 of them brought by corporations, and only 19 by African Americans. 600,000 people were killed to get rights for people, and for the next 30 years, judges applied those rights to capital and property, while stripping them from people.” 3 – Incorporation gives the advantage of limited liability, while giving rights of a legal person. with no moral conscience. They are designed by law to be concerned only for their stockholders. And not stakeholders, like community or workforce. 4 - Discusses externalities and corporate loyalties. They let uninvolved parties take on the impact of what they do. 5- Corporations cause harm to workers: layoffs, union busting, factory fires, sweatshops. Nike’s internal pricing documents show workers have 6.6 min to make a shirt. They are paid 8 cents for making it. The wages count for 3/10th of 1% of the retail price. “That is the science of exploitation.” They make a check list to determine what mental disorder a corporation has. They tick the box “Callous unconcern for the feelings of others.” The wages become too high in one third world country, so they move on to the next one. They tick the box “incapacity to maintain enduring relationships.” Harm to human health: Dangerous products, toxic waste, pollution, synthetic chemicals all of which are documented to cause cancer, birth defects, toxic effects. It shows pics of frogs with mismatched limbs, and a boy who has no eyes because he was exposed to Dupont Co’s fungicide. A professor of environmental med says, “Most industries have known about these risks. If I take a gun and shoot you, that is criminal. If I expose you to some chemicals which knowingly are going to kill you, what difference is there? The difference is that it takes longer to kill you.” They tick the box: Reckless disregard for the safety of others. Harm to animals: habitat destruction, factory farming, experimentation, rBGH, rBST, and Posilac. A whistle blower mailed that professor documents re toxic testing on cattle, with the dairy industry blatantly lying saying that milk is safe. They tick the box: deceitfulness, repeated lying, and conning others for profit. An investigative reporter said, “People are consuming antibiotics through milk, which is contributing to antibiotic resistance to bacterial infection and disease. When someone goes to the hospital with a staph infection and can’t be cured, they die. That is a crisis.” Agent Orange resulted in 50,000 birth defects in Vietnam and hundreds of thousands of cancers. It also resulted in damage done to our US soldiers. They sued. The manufacturer settled out of court, paying $80 million in damages without admitting guilt. They tick the box: “Incapacity to experience guilt.” Harm to biosphere: Clear cuts, CO2 emissions, nuclear wastes, corporate paradigm. Paper mills dump pollutants. We trade hogs, and their feces and waste is dumped, too. Multinational Monitor listed the top 100 corporate criminals in the 1990s. Corporations consider whether to obey the law, based on if the penalties are more cost efficient than compliance. They tick the box “Failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviours.” Exxon Mobile paid $125 million in fines for a spill, GE paid $9.5 million for defrauding the government, Chevron paid $6.5 million for environmental violations, Mitsubishi paid $1.8 million for antitrust violations, IBM paid $8.5 million for illegal exports, Kodak paid $1 million for environmental violations, Pfizer paid $20 million for antitrust violations, Odwalla paid $1.5 million for Food and Drug Regulatory violations, Sears paid $60 million for financial fraud, Blue Cross was fined $4 million, Unocal $1.5 million, Hyandai, Bristol Myers Squibb, Dawoo, Georgia-Pacific, Korean Air, Tyson, Unisys, United Technologies, Royal Caribbean, Warner Lambert, Litton, Rockwell, Teledyne, and the list goes on. People say “Our grandchildren’s children are going to have to pay for healthcare reform.” People are referring to the detrimental effects these corporations “ business decisions” will have on all living systems which are going into a decline as “intergenerational tyranny” – a form of a tax without representation, levied by us. 6 - Dr. Robert Hare, Ph D outlines the characteristics in the boxes ticked as those of a prototypical psychopath. 7 - “Who bares the moral responsibility”? Noam Chomsky said, “You could be a gas chamber attendee and a saint.” Things like slavery and tyranny are inherently monstrous, and you could be a nice person, but still participate in a mechanism that is horrendous. 8 – A seed activist offers her input on what a very disturbed mindset is involved in profiteering. They genetically modify seeds to be suicidal after they bear their crop for that season, so that the company can save money. 9 - A commodities trader said on 9/11, “the first thing every trader thought of was, ‘How much did gold go up?’” 10 - Explores the difference between wealth creation and usurpation, “just because you put a fence around it”. 11 - Big corporations pay hefty sums to advertising agencies who employ psychiatrists to help manipulate kids like the “nag factor”. They form their ads with the child’s development in mind – NOT in terms of helping them grow, but so they can sell more things. Advertising will get you cradle to grave. They spend millions of dollars annually to do so. 12 - Shows damage control helps to sell a way of life. 13- Shows that some companies give back to the community, but, they should give that money back to the tax payers and let them decide how the money should be spent. 14 - Explores branding and relationship to productivity. 15 - Everyone is so convinced that something sinister has gone on with this healthcare reform. But, what about undercover marketing? A CEO shows how product placement works in real life, not just the movies. 16 - The supreme court ruled that anything alive as long as it is not a full-birth human can be patented. Corporations can exclusively own a species. The cystic fibrosis gene and the breast cancer gene have been patented. It is estimated in 10 years, the actual genes that make up our species will be OWNED. 17- This chronicles Fox News firing its employees who refused to lie about the hormones injected into dairy cows. It shows the corporate stranglehold in action and how the cover up took place. 18 - The world bank privatized water in Bolivia. Talk about your death panels. Riots broke out, because their citizens didn’t view their drinking water or rain water as a commodity. Riots left kids without a limb or with brain injuries. So, when opponents to healthcare reform talk about tyranny and oppression, see what the US corporations do to other countries. 19 - US corporations made money off the Holocaust. IBM serviced the punchcards monthly at the camps. They knew what kind of prisoner was there (Jew, Homosexual, Jehovah’s Witness, Communist), and their status (suicide, death by bullet/chamber, etc). An IBM in New York. In order to get around embargo laws, Coca-Cola created “Fanta” so they could trade with Germany. In present day, in one week alone, 57 US corporations were fined for trading with official enemies of the US, including terrorists and tyrants. Amazon, Caterpillar, Chevron/Texaco, Citibank, Exxon Mobil, Walmart, Wells Fargo, to name a few. 20 - JP Morgan, Dupont, Goodyear, among others were coconspirators in plotting to overthrow the US government. These are corporate top dogs – not people supporting universal health reform. 21 - Who decides social responsibility? The Government should – the corporations do. 22 - Measure “F” in Arcata capped the number of chain restaurants and banned future development. Licking and Porter Townships in PA adopted ordinances that eliminate a corporation’s ability to claim constitutional rights as a person. Third world countries are fighting the privatization of water. 23- We as a people can take this world and put it back in our hands by creating a Constitutional Amendment to abolish "Corporate Person" and ban corporations from politics.