Gangs Of America (corp. gangs) new book

[donsu]

http://www.gangsofamerica.com/index.html


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Gangs of America describes the expansion of corporate legal empowerment onto the global stage through international agreements such as the North American Free Trade Agreement, which boosted the legal powers of corporations to the level of sovereign nations. The book pays special attention to recent events, including campaign finance reform, the financial scandals of 2002, and the growing movement to redefine the corporation and limit corporate power.

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corporate power and D.C. lobbyist should be evaporated

[PROGRESSIVE1]

1. kick

[Wapsie B]

2. Corporate Personhood needs to be abolished.

There needs to be sunset provisions for corporations, not just those based in the US, but any that do business here. It would do no good to put the clamps on US corps only to have them incorporate in the Cayman Islands.

[Fovea]

3. I agree

corporate power is too great, not just in the US, either.

[Warpy]

4. corporate personhood gave them protection without responsibility

and therein lies the problem. A corporation doesn't have an ass to kick or to jail. Fines are the only punishment, and the judiciary hasn't had the will to levy the type of fine that would seriously hurt them and make enough of an example of them to discourage other corporations from fraud, theft, extortion, or outright murder through defective goods.