Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Corporations are legal fictions. They exist only in contemplation of law. Thats an
accepted legal fact. The people at the bottom of triadic government are real. Thats
also a fact. I can vouch for that and so can you. People have rights, privileges,
and duties under the Constitution. Corporations have rights and privileges but
no duties. Their fictional existence makes them bigger than life and gives them an
incomparable economic grasp. No human being can compete with an economic
monster. The strange thing about that legal fiction is that behind its imposing
facade there are real people. It takes real people to operate the corporation. It's
the people behind the corporation who pocket the money. The corporation
doesn't have any pockets, only a fictional name. If the corporation engages in
illegal conduct it can be involuntarilly dissolved. But, you can't touch the people
behind it, unless there is good legal reason to "pierce the corporate veil". If its
dissolved the people behind it can resurrect it and give it another name.
   Now, corporations can contribute to their favorite candidate, or is it the people
behind it that are contributing. I suppose that later they'll be able to vote too. Well,
I guess fiction is bigger than life. The only problem is that as we extend their
fictitious life we might be shortening ours.      

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