Friday, April 20, 2012

Corporations are not people, everyone knows that,
They are legal fictions that only exist in contemplation of law,
Historically, they needed protection because, at that time, they were necessary
to our economy.
The Court gave them the Constitutional protection it gives to a real individual.
That is still necessary, but not for the same reason.

Corporations have gone from being necessary to being greedy.
Their economic embrace is incomparable,
No individual and no small corporation can compete with a big corporation.
Some have more power than a State.
They influence all levels of Government.

Now they even have the right to free speech
Wow, from a fictional existence to one that speaks
Corporations can only speak with money, another fiction unsupported by even a gold reserve.
The legal and political situation is worse than the Linguistic Turn.
The Linguistic Turn, at least, is trying to dig itself out of the fictitious map,
by The Interpretive Turn and the Rhetorical Turn.
But, the Law is holding fast.
The law has created legal fictions that must exist in contemplation of law.

The economic grasp of the corporation is power
Sometimes more power than Government
Yet, Government itself creates corporations
(Aha! could this be an area for accountablity?)
by approving Articles and issuing Charters of Incorporation.

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