The Supreme Debacle

[yezida]

Usually I don't write blogs two days in a row, but sometimes the situation calls for it. I interrupt your current meditation practice for a wee bit of politix:

Other than providing fabulous fodder for Stephen Colbert, there's nothing much funny about today's Supreme Court decision. Rather than wade my way through the petitions already circling

Comments

[alfrecht]

The whole situation is very distressing...

If you find out anything good/useful, do let us know! I'm in an odd jurisdictional situation at present, but if there were something that could be done by anyone/everyone, I'd be very much up for doing so...

[labelleizzy]

please keep us posted if Rep. Lee responds and in what fashion.

this scares me. Makes me want to ostrich, badly.

[sunfell]

What we really need to do is remove the rights of 'personhood' from corporations.

[yezida]

yes we do. But via what means? That is part of what I'm trying to get answers for.

[queenofillusion]

Apparently, governments have the right to dissolve articles of incorporation...the problem is that they don't.

And now corporations run everything because they have the money and so they have the influence over those who make the laws meant to govern them. This will just make it all the worse, IMHO.

I've often likened modern corporations to the old noblity-peasant class system of hundreds of years ago. The corporations are the robber barons who own the land and pretty much have absolute power and the rest of us are the serfs. Hm...let me see what happened? Well, in the 1300's there were plenty of peasant uprisings to go around.

What goes around comes around...

Veronica

[jonathankorman]

Maybe the Supreme Court is part of a secret vanguard, and they are trying to heighten the contradictions?

[veedub]

oooooh lovely! not gonna happen, but such a nice thought.

[eldriwolf]

---OOOH I *Like* that Idea--Imagine the stink it would make!
--they might even be willing to give up 'personhood' rather than be held accountable.

And if corporations are 'persons', what about trees? Rivers?