Freedoms Edge: Freedom the only end

The Australian Federal Government And Companies (Corporations, Business) Special Privileges for Paperwork Princes Australian laws treat companies as persons before a court. Have you ever seen a company go to jail? Why are Company Directors treated differently to petty thieves? I It would be no bad thing to see a company wound up for its crimes. Do we have a judge with the fortitude?


"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country . . . corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed."
	Abraham Lincoln . President of the United States, 1864
The biggest blow to citizen constitutional authority came in 1886. The US Supreme Court ruled in Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad, that a private corporation was a "natural person" under the US Constitution, sheltered by the 14th Amendment [(even though that amendment had been written and ratified in 1868 to protect the rights of freed slaves, which requires due process in the criminal prosecution of "persons." Following this ruling, huge, wealthy corporations were allowed to compete on "equal terms" with neighborhood businesses and individuals. "There was no history, logic or reason given to support that view," U.S.Supreme Court Justice William 0. Douglas
cept a"Chartered privileges [corporations] are a burthen, under which the people of Britain, and other European nations, groan in misery."
	Thomas Earle, Pamphleteer, 1823 (quoted in Taking Care of Business by Richard Grossman and Frank T. Adams)
They (corporations) cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls: (As the Australian Wheat Board knows full well - they have not yet been prosecuted for their crimes - one law for them and another for us... )
	Lord Edward Coke

The Australian Federal Government

And Companies (Corporations, Business)

Special Privileges for Paperwork Princes

Australian laws treat companies as persons before a court.

Have you ever seen a company go to jail?
Why are Company Directors treated differently to petty thieves? I
It would be no bad thing to see a company wound up for its crimes. Do we have a judge with the fortitude?

"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country . . . corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed."

Abraham Lincoln . President of the United States, 1864

The biggest blow to citizen constitutional authority came in 1886. The US Supreme Court ruled in Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad, that a private corporation was a "natural person" under the US Constitution, sheltered by the 14th Amendment [(even though that amendment had been written and ratified in 1868 to protect the rights of freed slaves, which requires due process in the criminal prosecution of "persons." Following this ruling, huge, wealthy corporations were allowed to compete on "equal terms" with neighborhood businesses and individuals. "There was no history, logic or reason given to support that view,"

U.S.Supreme Court Justice William 0. Douglas

cept

a"Chartered privileges [corporations] are a burthen, under which the people of Britain,
and other European nations, groan in misery."

Thomas Earle, Pamphleteer, 1823
(quoted in Taking Care of Business by Richard Grossman and Frank T. Adams)

They (corporations) cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls:

(As the Australian Wheat Board knows full well - they have not yet been prosecuted for their crimes
- one law for them and another for us... )

Lord Edward Coke

Very similar questions are very much alive in the international arena today. The talk about reforming financial architecture and that sort of thing.
A century ago, right about that time, corporations were granted the rights of persons by radical judicial activism, an extreme violation of
classical liberal principles.[1] They were also freed from earlier obligations to keep to specific activities for which they were chartered.
[2] Furthermore, in an important move, the courts shifted power upwards, from the stockholders in a partnership to the central
management, which was identified with the immortal corporate person.

"Taking Control of Our Lives:
Freedom, Sovereignty, and Other Endangered Species

Companies are a typical case of privilege; private law; their existence is a denial of all that is equitable and just in our society. They have clearly shown that they are predators
and people are the meal. They have perpetrated an immense amount of injustice,
poverty and murder; power is the name of the game, power over people.

One need only read the newspapers and listen to the news to see what type
of unprincipled persons run companies.