Corporations should not have human rights; this requirement did not exist for the first one hundred years of U.S. history. Corporations manipulate so much with money because as “individuals” they can sling it around where they want to. We can legislate against this. We must look to our legislators, who must be asked hard questions. But the debates are sponsored by the media, who are in turn controlled by the corporatists.
The issue involves Democrats more than Republicans, said Kall. It is small businesses, not large corporations, that are innovative and employ the most people. Corporations violate our laws with impunity; their decisions are financial rather than ethical/moral.
Said Mary Ann, government decisions don’t have to consider people but can focus on corporations because, as individuals, they have property rights; incorporation, moreover, allows them the power to threaten litigation.
As far as election 2008 is concerned, continued Kall, Congress has failed miserably to pass legislation that protects the vote. The primaries will inevitably be corrupt. He recently wrote an op ed asserting that we’re already in the post-election era. People no longer believe in elections because of the abuse, though Venezuela’s recent election went well.
Mary Ann countered this by attributing the denial of further powers to Chávez to the CIA’s perpetual presence in Venezuela. If Chávez continues his power grab, the US will invade. She “doesn’t trust that election.”
Kall invoked the “shock doctrine” of the United States turning Venezuela over to the Neoconservatives, who are the ones who really belong in Guantánamo.
Asked if there is any hope, Kall pointed to the Internet, where alternative media are still active; his own Web site functions as a medium of change. Impeachment is imperative. Pelosi, in her failure to implement it, is an accessory to the crime. Consider the recent finding that there are no nuclear activities in Iran.
Bush and Cheney, if impeached, would invoke executive privilege before resigning, said Kall. Bush could turn history on its head by replacing himself with a black or a woman. Bush’s manipulative mythology is all about rejecting women and promoting machismo with masochistic exhortations like “Bring ‘em on!”
“There is still hope in ‘we the people,”” insisted Mary Ann on the heals of the S. 507 progress.
Who can live without hope?
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