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THE CORPORATION engages us in a darkly amusing account of the institution's evolution as a legal "person" whose prime directive is to produce ever-increasing profit for it's shareholders regardless of the cost to anyone, or anything else. Imbuing it with this pathological nature is a recent human achievement. 150 years ago a corporation was merely an organized way of doing business. Today it is a global power that uses its status as a "person" to claim rights under the constitution.

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Sign of the times.

Subject: Just so we're clear on this... shoutingboy 2004-04-05 17:29 (link)

"Just to maintain some kind of perspective:

These folks were interfering with the operations of a port which was shipping materiel to our troops in wartime.
That's treason, yes? We're all agreed about that? Just so's we're all on the same page.

Now, I'm prepared to have the discussion about whether excessive force was used in halting this treasonous activity.

But I do think it would send a good message if a few of the protesters were hanged. After due process of law, of course."


How do you react when someone suggests hanging your friends and lovers?