Why stopping Corporate Personhood is not the way to go:
We need to go further and deeper.
Half of the rights that are utilized by the Big Corporations lie outside the parameters of Corporate Personhood.
This is the second of my OP's regarding the Community Rights movement. I see this movement as the only way to save this nation from the One Big Money Party, the controlled "elections," and the "Puppet Masters at the Top"
Paul discusses how we have to stop battling the "regulatory" fight in the courts and instead, we must get involved in the ordinance-passing activities that could indeed stop the Corporate Beast in its tracks.
Already one hundred and fifty communities are sponsoring measures, or have succeeded in passing local ordinances, that are involved with Community Rights.
Among the successful ordinances are two in Pennsylvania. One Community in PA was about to watch as a huge 14,000 pig, industrial "pig farm" came in and destroyed the soil, air and water of the community. This "farm" would have come about as Corporate privileges and rights have a tight hold over the state legislators and the governor.
The community, had it simply relied on their "elected officials" to solve the problem, well, they would have been told that since large pig farms are not an illegal activity, the community must accept it. Instead after a great deal of work, they put together an ordinance that the local voters voted in, and now Corporate Pig Farms above a certain size are outlawed.
The second successful Community Rights ordinance was passed in the City of Pittsburgh, where the Big Energy firms were about to drill at three fracking sites. The Pittsburgh ordinance now bans fracking.
Elsewhere, the Community Rights movement is currently attempting the passage of such measures as those needed to stop nuclear waste from passing, via railroad trains, through a community. Or from having Gm seeds and crops being planted.
Pls Note: This discussion was held back in 2012, a while before the most recent SCOTUS decision about money and free speech was heard.
It is also well worth it to visit:
paulcienfeugos.com
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