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Anne & Lynn Wheeler <ly...@garlic.com> writes:
> 2011, member of congress released to the public/press the transactions
> showing the speculators responsible for the wild volitility. The funny
> thing is that the press then chastised the member of congress for
> violation of corporate privacy (aka corporations are people) ... rather
> than criticising the speculators. post from 2011:
> http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011k.html#76 FIA shocked and outraged after Senator leaks oil trading data

re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#93 Barb

and more drift, "corporations are people", We the Corporations: How
American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights
https://www.amazon.com/We-Corporations-American-Businesses-Rights-ebook/dp/B01M64LRDJ/

pgxi/loc45-50:

IN DECEMBER 1882, ROSCOE CONKLING, A FORMER SENATOR and close confidant
of President Chester Arthur, appeared before the justices of the Supreme
Court of the United States to argue that corporations like his client,
the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, were entitled to equal rights
under the Fourteenth Amendment. Although that provision of the
Constitution said that no state shall “deprive any person of life,
liberty, or property, without due process of law” or “deny to any person
within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws,” Conkling
insisted the amendment’s drafters intended to cover business
corporations too.

... snip ...

Conkling in his arguments claimed that the authors of 14th amendment had
intended to include "corporations" in addition to "persons", but failed
to add the wording in the final text. Later somebody reviewed all the
notes by the authors and found no such reference to corporations
(Conkling had fabricated his argument before the Supreme Court).

pgxiv/loc74-78:

Between 1868, when the amendment was ratified, and 1912, when a scholar
set out to identify every Fourteenth Amendment case heard by the Supreme
Court, the justices decided 28 cases dealing with the rights of African
Americans—and an astonishing 312 cases dealing with the rights of
corporations.

pgxviii/loc132-36:

For most of American history, the Supreme Court failed to protect the
dispossessed and the marginalized, with the justices claiming to be
powerless in the face of hostile public sentiment. As we will see,
however, the court’s record on corporate rights was much different. In
1809, the Supreme Court decided the first case on the constitutional
rights of corporations, decades before the first comparable cases for
women or racial minorities. And unlike women and minorities, who lost
nearly all of their early cases, corporations won that first case—and
have compiled an impressive list of victories in the years since.

pg229/loc3667-68:

IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, CORPORATIONS WON LIBERTY RIGHTS, SUCH AS
FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND RELIGION, WITH THE HELP OF ORGANIZATIONS LIKE THE
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

... snip ...

Tobacco industry is fighting back against anti-tobacco with scientists
for hire, Merchants of Doubt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchants_of_Doubt
http://www.merchantsofdoubt.org/
https://www.amazon.com/Merchants-Doubt-Handful-Scientists-Obscured-ebook/dp/B003RRXXO8/

but loosing out to Nader and public citizen groups.

pg278/loc4393-94:

CHAPTER 9 The Corporation’s Justice

... snip ...

Has tobacco industry then fighting back with board member appointed to
supreme court and "capturing" the national chamber of commerce for
corporations to gain 1st amendment rights.

"The Influence Machine: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Corporate
Capture of American Life"
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00NDTUDHA/


recent refs:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#52 We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2018c.html#54 We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights



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