Corporate Personhood

We’ve been subjected to a particular inequity for a long time here in America. This inequity was not legislated upon us; it was imposed upon us by the Supreme Court. This inequity has allowed our voices, the voices of we the people, to be effectively silenced. It has allowed our government to be effectively taken over by now global corporations. I’ve mentioned it before, and maybe you already know about it. This inequity is euphemistically called ‘corporate personhood’.

Our Constitution and the Bill of Rights were not crafted to provide protections to the alleged ‘rights’ of corporations. They were crafted to protect the rights of individual Americans. Over the years, the legal definitions of ‘people’ and ‘person’ have been twisted to suit the interests of those doing the twisting. As such, a corporation is now considered a ‘person’, complete with protected rights under the established precedents of the Supreme Court.

These corporate ‘people’ exercise their ‘rights’ with resources that far outstrip even the collective resources of the entire population of states and even some countries. They act with impunity and no moral conscience as their only allegiance is to their stockholders profits. They lobby our government on equal footing with flesh and blood human beings, yet with the financial resources that even the governments of most countries would enjoy.

Think about it; how’d you like to be able to hire 100 lobbyists to get your pet legislation pushed thru Congress & the Senate? How’d you like to be able to say whatever you wanted on your national TV network without fear of violating ethics laws because your 1st Amendment rights trump them? Sound good? But wait…you can’t, can you? You have a job to go to so that you can pay the mortgage and put food on the table. Sure, you have your voice, but as you’ve seen so clearly in this primary, even as a Congressman, if your voice isn’t in harmony with the voice of the media, it is simply discounted and drowned out.

So, what can we do?

Get involved. It really has become clear to me that the solution really does start right in our own hometowns. Dr. Paul is so very right, so amazingly right, it was really an epiphany for me when I realized it. Get involved in your local GOP. Get involved in your local DNC if that’s your thing. Or go Green, Libertarian, whatever. But above all, get involved. When we band together in our communities, we can and do make a difference. When our communities band together, we can change our counties. When the counties come together, we can change our states. And when your state stands together, the federal government will be in its rightful place.

Sure, this movement started for me with a Presidential candidate that speaks the truth. But it will continue and prosper only if we do what we can locally.

I’ll finish where I ended, on corporate personhood. I wanted to share with you all what happens when the people of a town get it right. Here’s the story of a township in PA that decided that the protection of the rights of people didn’t apply to corporations. While it's important to note all didn't end well as the rights of the citizens in Porter Township PA were overturned by the PA state Legislature & Senate, I hope that they give you some food for thought and help you to realize how we can make a difference and get our government back on track, one small building block at a time. We can't take back our federal government until we can take back our local & state governments people.

In U.S. First, Local Government Refuses to Recognize Corporate Claims to Civil Rights PA Township Bans Corporate Involvement in Governing
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Pennsylvania ACRE Bill Passes
Legislature gives state officials power to override local democracy
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Corporate Personhood
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