05-05-2010, 09:12 AM
Quote:Slavery is the legal fiction that a person is property. Corporate personhood is the legal fiction that property is a person.
Great quotable!
Yeah, the Corporations are 'winning' and everyone and everything living other are loosing! IMHO Capitalism was never a good idea, but now it is killing us - especially in its 'wild/untamed/uncontrolled' American version!
This spill, even IF their planned suction hood or [in six months] relief well 'works', this will be an environmental disaster of epic proportions and effect the entire Gulf and all of its coastline. If the 'hood' fails, the oil may well get into the Gulf Stream itself. The fact that there is a monetary cap [didn't 'ya know?] on the money BP can be held accountable for [and that sum is small compared to the damage this will cause no matter what!] shows how legislation, polity and power are all biased towards the 'Big Corporations' and against life on this Planet.
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass