Posted on 02/15/2011 5:45:10 AM PST by ThunderSleeps
Several Tucson women's organizations celebrated Valentine's Day by performing a mock wedding between brides and corporations on the UA Mall.
About 15 women and a single man participated in the event. Members from the Tucson Raging Grannies, the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, and Code Pink acted and sang while wearing lace wedding dresses and formal clothing during the 25-minute ceremony. The groups believe corporations have so many of the same rights as individuals that they are nearly "eligible bachelors."
(Excerpt) Read more at wildcat.arizona.edu ...
Right... Those bad old corporations, that don't employ anyone...and who don't plan on being in business next year, or in five years, or ten... {snort}
...walking around campus in their wedding dresses and shouting questions like "What do we have to do to get you to understand what's happening to our country?"
Well, I might put on a dress and walk around asking the same thing. Though I'd be referring to the socialistic takeover...
...chose the Mall because it is highly trafficked. The audience neared about 10 people including a few students.
Wow, hope campus police called out extra officers to handle all ten people.
"We were hoping there'd be lots of people," Putnam-Hidalgo said. "It's amazing how much noise you can make and how much of the campus you can cover and people don't really notice you."
I've been on UA's campus. I'm sure they noticed you, I just don't think they give a ****. (Not a bad thing, not a slam on UA's student body.)
"We now have a government of the corporation, by the corporation and for the corporation," Smith said. "It's really up to we the people to reclaim democracy."
Well, hussein obama seems bent on destroying companies and jobs. Let me clarify. Jobs at companies that don't suck up to him and his cohorts in crime, playing along with their crony-capitalism. But on it's face, the quote above is absurd.
"It is a very effective way (to draw students)," she said. "We came over because of the outfits. That's the only reason."
Bwaa haa haa.
The 60’s are over. College kids aren’t going to march to a 50 year-old drum.
Doubt, however, that these disclosures, disturbed Code Pink, et al. . .in the least.
ping!
I think the article missed the finale’ where they all stomped their feet and shrieked “I want a pony” a half dozen times.
What the heck. If two men can marry, why not marry anything? What's the difference? I'd like to marry my house so the bank could never repossess it (that would be spousal kidnapping).
These creatures are going to be left standing alone at the alter. Corporate America can do better.
Dude!
I’m so embarassed for these chicks. This is what drugs can do to you.
“Just say NO!”
There are few things so lame as a joke it takes a long time to explain.
And I pray that they did not drive a gas-powered automobile to get to the campus.
Otherwise, they are part of the problem!
Since it was rank and file hourly employees instead of 4 guys at headquarters getting millions, I bet they probably like it.
Oddly enough, even though for silly reasons, they are pointing out a serious constitutional problem.
It began before president Lincoln, with the rise of American industrialization and national corporations, especially the railroads. State governments decided that they could exploit corporations that did business in their State, or even just passed through it, as “cash cows”, and regulating them to be in conformity to just their laws, and no other States laws. An impossible situation for a corporation.
And in many ways, the States were clearly interfering with interstate commerce, authority over which is federal, according to the constitution.
After a case was decided in the Supreme Court, the official court reporter extrapolated that the justices were basing their decision on the theory that corporations had civil rights, though they were not living persons. He asked the Chief Justice if this was the case, and was told that this was the consensus of the court.
So since that time, corporate civil rights have been accepted as part of the law. Shortly thereafter, Lincoln directed one of his staff to flesh out the philosophy of corporate civil rights, and he did so extensively.
By today’s standards, the idea of corporate civil rights has grown so much that corporations are reaching an ominous parity with human rights. In the last election, for example, one corporation went so far as to tongue in cheek run for public office.
And based on the law as it is now written, they are free to do so. And much, much more.
Unfortunately, though created out of whole cloth, the courts were correct that corporations *do* need some rights, as corporations. But to limit these civil rights to just those that need to be *granted* (that is, are *not* “natural rights”), there needs to be a constitutional amendment, to distinguish the two.
Corporations are not living human beings, and nothing other than human beings, living or dead, should have any claim to human civil rights, natural or granted.
No question. We will not hear a complaint and there will be no screaming from the Code Pink gallery, for sure.
This thread is just great without pictures, thank you...
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