THE CORPORATION [2/23] Birth Video

2. How the corporation came to be. Originally, corporations were set up to serve the public good. Corporation lawyers gained rights through the US Supreme Court using the 14th Amendment (set up to protect slaves) that gives them the rights of a person. In the last century, the corporation is given more and more rights while people are increasingly stripped of theirs.

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the civil war was ...
the civil war was not about rights of blacks and slavery. it was about which parts of the u.s., the north or? the south, were to become english and french colonies. the war was funded by the large banks at the time and royal families.

@wafcake I disagree ...
@wafcake I disagree; I think that government should have stayed the hell out of private business? in the first place. Corporations should NOT have any sort of immunity, the board should be personally liable for any harm the corporation causes, and there should not be special loopholes or subsidies for any of them. I'm no fan of modern corporations, to be sure, but I'm no fan of government control, either. Government=corporations=government.

They need to make ...
They need to make a? change to the 14th Amendment; change the word "Person" with the words "Flesh And Blood HUMAN BEING (SINGULAR/INDIVIDUAL)".

@wafcake Like what ...
@wafcake Like what kind of regulations? Regulations are put in place by corporations to prevent any new? competition from entering the market. We need less regulation not more.

People better wake ...
People better wake and see how these corporations f**k us and taking are rights we better come together f**k creed race sex we better all work together or we aint going to be? here the going to end

@oliverdyer well ...
@oliverdyer well said oliverdyer...created impropria persona for courts to drown people by making the? coporate fictions ens legis

@Dorkus89Malorkus I ...
@Dorkus89Malorkus I should think a Marxist analysis would reject moral motives for the civil war,? no?

Full-length video ...
Full-length video at FullDocumentary [dot] com?

Dorkus fails, ...
Dorkus fails, period. Moron? in denial.

@Dorkus89Malorkus ...
@Dorkus89Malorkus And my comment was aimed at the 'states rights' argument. Well, that and a joke at the expense of the ignorance that is the far right. Very easy to see if you just, ohh...READ. But, that must not be your strong suit.?

@sakar181 I didn't ...
@sakar181 I didn't say anything about that. I just said that the civil war? wasn't about slavery at all.

@Dorkus89Malorkus ...
@Dorkus89Malorkus So states rights were not a factor in the Civil war? Thats news to me. Dorkus? fail.

@sakar181 Still not ...
@sakar181 Still not what the civil war was about. History fail.?

@Dorkus89Malorkus ...
@Dorkus89Malorkus God damned big government liberals, dictating to the states that? people aren't property! Where's rush & beck when you need them?!? /facepalm

There? just needs ...
There? just needs to be a lot more regulations on corporations and its hard because all the politicians are bought off by them.

@Dorkus89Malorkus ...
@Dorkus89Malorkus orly??

lol wtf... The ...
lol wtf... The civil war wasn't about freeing the slaves for f**ks sake. Stop trying to shape history so it fits your little Marxist bubble. It was ONLY to keep the federal union from breaking down right after Washington started to abuse its powers. Lincoln said he wouldn't even free the slaves if? he could keep the union together without doing so.

The 14th amendment ...
The 14th amendment was not passed to protect black people like the people in this video believe. The 14th amendment was passed to convert people who were not "persons" at that time to the status as "persons" or "U.S. persons" who could be given "priviledges" from the government and thus establish an "adhesion" contract without them even knowing it. That's why the war was started in the first place and the slaves were simply used as an excuse to bring it all about.? Pure Fraud on all people...

I have an major ...
I have an major issue with Corporate power abuse in our system, but the majority? of this video seems to be refutted by Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 17 U.S. (4 Wheat.) 518 (1819). In that this decision predates the 14th amendment and the civil war and is the basis for corporate personhood in the US. I am not saying that this is a just decision....but this film from Canada seems to over look this lynch pin.

No one went to jail ...
No one went to jail when the mortgage crisis hit and those responsible made millions/billions and f**ked the economy for many countries. Their only excuse is that it is LEGAL As for corporations not being tangled up in government, one clear example is Dick Cheney and that retard who was president. You got owners of ARMS and OIL running the country? and your finances handled by former CEOs of GOLDMAN SACHS- billion dollar white sycophants who stepped on every1 to get on top run superpower USA?

@otherside65 ...
@otherside65 Certain companies can out-compete others, but that's exactly what is supposed to happen. If you are infering that? somehow "big mean corporations use their 'power' and 'force' to 'disable' smaller ones", then you are neglecting that company's have no force (government is a monopoly on force). No one forces you yo buy McDonalds after all. And regardless, if a company does use force or fraud it is the legitimate job of the government to prosecute those responsible. Hence the courts.

@dragonfly876 - The ...
@dragonfly876 - The first narrator in this? section, anyway.

Completely off- ...
Completely off-topic because I have a headache and don't want to strain my brain to make a well-thought-out comment: I find the narrator's accent fascinating. In the past, I'd heard that Southern American accents and English accents were more closely related than Standard American and English. I'd never really understood it, but? to me, this guy's vocal chords sound like the baby of Neil Gaiman and John McCain.

@AquaMac93 yes,? ...
@AquaMac93 yes,? through their legal and monetary influence, as the cliche as it sounds

@AquaMac93 history ...
@AquaMac93 history has shown time and time again how corporations disable small independent companies from getting? ahead.

A major ...
A major evolutionary event occurred around 1970 ... "For the first time in history we had the resources and the know-how to provide for everyone on Earth at a very high standard of living, higher than anyone had yet experienced." - R Buckminster Fuller. It is no longer a case of 'puling the top down, but now elevating everyone, including the wealthy minority up to a level no one has yet experienced. The context of the game of being human altered? irreversibility some forty years ago.

Let me get this ...
Let me get this straight... This? video is arguing that you *should* be able to deprive a corporation of property *without* due process of law?

Self serving ...
Self serving argumentation and use of the halo effect by association to slavery. "thousands of people died? in the civil war" so that corporations could get rights.... ain't that a loaded statement. In the context of the Reconstruction Era, its only natural for a society to redefine its social contracts.

I pledge for a ...
I pledge for a justice system, one where in laywers can manipulate these laws, for their own benefit, How this justice system must be, must be researched by independent scientist and judges, We must research how we can wield corruption out of our systems!? #OWS