Corporations are the People's worst enemy. Therefore,

John Edwards should be our nominee.

Joe Johns (CNN) has been bloviating all day about the "perception" that Edwards campaign had a negative air to it because he accuses corporations of being greedy and "evil" while the Obama camp is delivering a positive message of "hope" and "change".

The candidate that recognizes our challenges and who has identified our real worst enemy as corporations and who is willing to fight them is the candidate I can support for President of the United States.

honors. Edwards is the way.

corporations, wall street and MOST members of congress are the most NEGATIVE influences and are causing the greatest damage to America.

We need to remove the influence of corporations on politics and re-regulate the industries: banking, oil companies, telecoms, the MSM, etc....

First order of business, undo EVERYTHING Dumbya has done, then get started fixing Clinton's errors on NAFTA, free trade, fast track and deregulation, then go back to the GHWB years and clean that mess up, then go back to St. Ronnies reign of romantic comedies (unless you lived in Central or South America where it was a Holocaust remake) and take a long hard look at how much of his legacy is still harming the U.S..

are ignoring Edwards. He'll shut their asses down and they know it.

But what do I know; I'm a capitalist.

Bryant
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... "negotiating" with them or "nicing them" - you have to FIGHT them and TAKE the power back.

John Edwards is the ONLY CANDIDATE STANDING UP to them!

Go Edwards!

K & R

One will work, but one will not, and I do not care if John Edwards came out and said, look you fat greedy bastards, get your fucking hands off our government. Hope is nothing more than Faith, and it will never get our government back from greedy criminals.

...to strip corporations of their "person" status, which would effectively make corporate board members (and shareholders) financially and legally responsible for the messes they create. You'd have a lot less corporate malfeasance then.

Thanks to a series of anti-consumer, anti-democratic Circuit and Supreme Court decisions, corporations have achieved nearly untouchable status in the US. There's almost nothing legal you can do to resist or halt their policies, which are based solely on fattening the bottom line and increasing shareholder value. And that's exactly what they should be doing, since bumping the stock price is the only obligation a US for-profit publicly held corporation has under US law.

However, just about everything that's good for Wall Street seems to be bad for humans and most other species. Corporations, and the gigantic sums of money they wield to buy political power, are the generals in the sustained war fought by international capital against local, regional and global ecosystems; the non-investor classes; worldwide labor; and progressive political movements everywhere. They must be reined in.

And US Constitutional law is no help. The Constitution only defines the peoples' relationship to government. It says nothing about our relationship to non-governmental undemocratic institutions (except for the prohibition against a state religion). All current restraints on corporate behavior are the results of case law, regulatory oversight and pro-environmental legislation like the Endangered Species Act.

So, given that the odds are stacked heavily against democracy and in favor of the corporate oligarchy, one of the better ways to wage war against corporate power is the so-called "corporate death penalty." In brief, it means identifying a pattern of corporate malfeasance and initiating proceedings to revoke their charters to conduct business.

Here's a good primer on the history, issues and processes involved in charter revocation. And here's an article citing cases in which such efforts have been successful.

More background here, here and here.

Also, we had a DUer named David Van Os running for Texas attorney general a couple of years ago who was interested in using the corporate death penalty. Here's a thread on the subject. And here's his web site. Anybody know what happened with David and his campaign? I see he's still listed as a DU member, but I don't know if he's still participating.


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