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Tuesday, June 08, 2004

U.S. Supreme Court - SANTA CLARA COUNTY v. SOUTHERN PAC. R. CO., 118 U.S. 394 (1886)

This is a watershed decision that granted the corporation personhood. That pattern has had over 100 years in which to iterate, in which to grow: it is a deadly one, inimical to a society of individual rights, placing every citizen as a reluctant David in the looming shadow of a Goliath. Except this Goliath is bigger and guess what: practically immortal.
"So, who's your new neighbor?"
"Oh, that's International Waste Disposal."
"You like them?"
"ummm, well, no. The fumes and trucks and such... But I went over to talk to them, you know... There are 3000 of them, so it's kind of hard"

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