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“Natural Persons” 0

At Delaware Liberal, one of the regulars compares persons and “corporate persons” and wonders which gets the “Get Out of Jail Free” card. A nugget:

Get out of Jail

Harming Neighbors-Real people harming neighbors, like throwing garbage in their gutter or flooding the neighborhood with the garden hose, can be sued, stopped by health authorities or given restraining orders. Corporate people go on for years polluting neighbors with toxins and it requires a monumental, expensive legal effort to stop or restrain them. Often they are excused because they “give people jobs”.

Follow the link. The whole post is worth your while.

“Corporate personhood” is a Frankenstein’s monster which, like its original, has the potential to destroy its creators while laying waste to the polity and its environs–and its environment.

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