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Stinky The Clown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-21-10 08:30 PM
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The issue isn't free speech. The issue is the definition of "person"
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JuniperLea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-21-10 08:31 PM
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1. No more "mergers and acquisitions"
Corporations will need to marry now.
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Democrat_in_Houston Donating Member (94 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-21-10 08:33 PM
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3. Funny!
:rofl:

I guess this is the human condition - to laugh in the midst of such awful news. Frankly, I'm still in shock, so I don't know how I'm even laughing.
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JuniperLea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-21-10 08:41 PM
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9. Me too...
Laughing or the alternative... I'm just not the suicidal type! I've even laughed at funerals for crying out loud!

:rofl:
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tridim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-21-10 08:40 PM
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7. But wouldn't that be same sex marriage?
That's the worst thing in the world according to the politicians they own.
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JuniperLea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-21-10 08:42 PM
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10. Spot freaking on!
They will have to determine their sex right away~! Mr. or Ms. Corporation needs to tell when we ask!
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tridim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-21-10 08:47 PM
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14. Whatever they say, I won't believe them unless I see their genitals.
Turn your head and cough Mr. Exxon.

Hey, fair is fair. We have to disclose our sex on documents all the time.
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JuniperLea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-21-10 08:54 PM
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16. ROFLMFAO!
Brilliant!

:rofl:
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msongs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-21-10 08:31 PM
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2. if it can't register to vote and VOTE in a local precinct, it is NOT a person nt
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kenny blankenship Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-21-10 08:34 PM
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4. They should be subjected to the inheritance tax if they're people
Edited on Thu Jan-21-10 08:35 PM by kenny blankenship
With every changing of the CEO - take half their corporate capital and pay down the national debt.
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Faux pas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-21-10 08:34 PM
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5. We should all register for corporatehoodship. Maybe we could
get their tax breaks too.
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tridim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-21-10 08:43 PM
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13. I just had a similar idea in another thread.
If they're going to force us to play this crazy game, let's incorporate the people.
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Faux pas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-21-10 08:49 PM
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15. We'd have a lot more rights and privileges if we did. I'm sure there
are enough big brains here on DU to figure out how we could do this. I'm serious. We'd have so much more power than the non person corporations do.
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skorpo Donating Member (300 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-21-10 10:50 PM
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17. And register and be bound by the laws of each state in which they do business or sell products
Edited on Thu Jan-21-10 11:20 PM by skorpo
They should also pay taxes in all states in which they advertise since each is a person.
There--Financial crises in the 50 states are solved...
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FiveGoodMen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-21-10 08:38 PM
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6. Sad that it must be pointed out, but you're absolutely right.
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endless october Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-21-10 08:41 PM
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8. perhaps we should consider charging more corporations with murder
or manslaughter.

they're "people" and all now, right?
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SammyWinstonJack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-21-10 10:52 PM
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18. +1.
:thumbsup:
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ShockediSay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-21-10 08:42 PM
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11. So shouldn't these corporate persons have the right to vote?
And if one corporation has a hundred subsidiaries that would be 101 votes.

But hey, relax, with this decision and the support of the Fascist Federalist Society of

Judges on SCOTUS, voting doesn't matter any more.

We're well on our way toward Fascism as there was under Mussolini, as there is under
Berlusconi, and now as we've got it under Scalia.
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glinda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-21-10 08:42 PM
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12. I guess we are less than that now big time. Nothing like rubbing your face in it.
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