Monday, January 23, 2006

Did you know...

The US Supreme Court ruled in the 1886 case of Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad that corporations are fictional persons, legal persons, and moral persons and have the rights of an individual (natural) person. Corporations, since, have set about pursuing political agendas fit to their cause as though they were a natural person.

This is not an idea new to the United States.

In the 1930's, an Italian dictator named Benito Mussolini came up with a concept he called "corporatism:" the merging of corporate and state interests. He later changed the name to Fascism.