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Corporations do not have Constitutional Rights!
Corporations do not have Constitutional Rights. Corporations do not have Constitutional Rights. Say it with me: Corporations do not have Constitutional Rights.
Does a corporation have the right to free speech? No. No they do not. That would be a Constitutional Right. The language of the Constitution remains clear and unambiguous, stating over and over again that its statutes deal with PEOPLE!
Do you have the right to Free Speech? Yes. Does that mean you have to take in whatever advertisement they stick out there? On Billboards, on placards, on bulletin boards? No. You are not limited to taking in media. Freedom of Speech means you can reject the message! You can paint over the Billboard! You can tear the advertisements off your bulletin boards, and throw them away. That is an act of Free Speech!
Corporations do not have Constitutional Rights.
Citizens cannot be guilty of censoring corporations. One citizen, or fifty citizens. Boycotts are not censorship! Only the government can censor. That is part of the very definition, my friends. Boycotting is not Censorship, and Corporations do not have Constitutional Rights.
Who are the corporations? They are the faceless, personless facades of those who have. Those who have money, those who have power. The one and only reason that corporations were first treated as persons was so that you and I, members of the proletariat, could hold them accountable for their misdeeds, abuses, negligence. That has been chipped away. Recently, bills have been passed all over the United States under the name of “Tort Reform”. This limits the liability of corporations for their products and/or services to specified periods of time. For example, a manufacturer of passenger airplanes may only be held liable for injuries or deaths associated with their products for, oh, ten years. Once that time limit has elapsed, the DC-10 could literally fall out of the sky, crash into an elementary school on “Bring Your Grandparent Day”, and kill everyone there in a horrible fireball—and we could not legally sue the company that made that plane.
At the beginning of the so-called Industrial Revolution, Monarchs ruled the governments of nation-states. These Monarchs suffered corporations to exist, issuing charters granting them legal right to conduct business. At any time, if the Monarch did not approve of the practices of a corporation, s/he could revoke the charter and not suffer them any longer. In modern times, in the so-called democracies, governments derive power from the people. Therefore, the people grant corporations their charters. In a cruel irony, we the people suffer corporations to exist. However, we suffer in pain, loss, debt slavery, disease, stress, malnutrition, poisoning, and marginalization.
Corporations do not have Constitutional Rights. People have Constitutional Rights.
I do not say these things to incite “class warfare”. I do not need to incite class warfare. It rages around us every day. We, the average, every day people, the citizens, the commoners, the proletariat have been in retreat! I wish to incite an about face. Stop running! Turn to fight the enemy! Live Free, or die.
Live Free, or Die!
Live Free, or Die!
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