May Day: Move to Amend

May 10, 2013 Day of Action Against Corporate Personhood

 

 

When the Supreme Court decided for corporations in the Citizens United v. FEC case, it elevated knowledge of the doctrine of “corporate personhood” to new heights. Hundreds of thousands of people now know what those words mean.

 

But as awful as Citizens United is, corporate personhood wasn’t created with that case. Corporate Personhood was concocted by corporate lawyers 127 years ago.

 

On May 10, 1886 in the Santa Clara v. Southern Pacific Railroad case, the Court is said to have given corporations their first foothold in the Constitution.

 

In the case, corporations argued they are protected under the 14th amendment — the amendment passed to ensure equal protection of African Americans after slavery was abolished. Since then, there has been case after case in which the Court expanded the Constitutional “rights” of corporations.

This year, on the 127th “birthday” of corporate persons, Move to Amend activists will be organizing actions and events all over the nation.

 

Remember, we have a bunch of resources to help you pull off a great event. Click here!

 

Upcoming Events

 

Click here for the page with links for more information about the many events taking place across the USA

 

Zombies are People Too

Zombies For Peace

With all the recent negative publicity concerning zombies, we have decided to form a support group with the goal to inform the public that zombies were people once too. If you think this is something that would interest you, please get in touch with us. We meet once a month at a local bar where we just wonder around and grunt our displeasure at the living.

* Learn how to protect yourself from the “living” that would do you harm!

* Learn how to blend in without drawing attention to the fact that you are a zombie

* Learn nutritional eating habits besides human flesh

* Learn to stretch properly before rigor mortis sets in

STOP THE KILLING!

END THE VIOLENCE AGAINST ZOMBIES!

(Please no Obama Zombies. You people are just too crazy for us!)

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All the above is from a Craig’s List ad linked to at the top of the entry.

Those fine folks deserve as much publicity as possible thus the presence of their fine post on the 1,335,673,205th best blog on Earth.

Support Female Rights!!!!!!!!!

It is a travesty!!!

I am surprised that cities and towns across the USA are not filled with mobs of women screaming their demands for equal treatment with males.

I am also surprised that the Web and mass media is also not full of biddies clucking their demand that they, too, be equal with males in having to register with the military draft.

 

“Men failing to register for the draft can be fined up to $250,000, sentenced to up to five years in prison, and denied eligibility for federal and state benefits including jobs, financial aid, citizenship, loans, and job training. Only men now face these harsh penalties.”

 

Assisting those deprived females who are, maybe, too scared to demand full equal treatment with males is the National Coalition For Men.

The quote above comes from here—->   HERE

 

 

 

 

Fight Corporate Greed and Enslavement of We, the People

I received the following e-mail from a most-excellent organization striving to free you and me and all our friends, kinfolk, etc. from the increasing power and enormous wealth of corporations that have already enslaved many politicians and who own the mass media that brainwashed a HUGE portion to the masses of common folks.

We can not allow those greedy anti-humanity corporations and their minions, cohorts and lackey politicians enslave us further!!!

Fight Back For Freedom!!!!!!!!

(note: left their links intact. Use browser “back button” to return here or open link in a new window. thanks!!!)

Begin message from Move to Amend:

HELP US WIN: It is among our top priorities this year to gather an additional 250,000 signatures on our Motion to Amend petition. We have written a direct appeal (below) for you to send to your contacts, asking them to sign the petition. Please click on forward, sign your name at the end, delete the unsubscribe link at the bottom of this message and delete this paragraph before sending. We encourage you to tailor this message to meet your needs. In forwarding this message, you will have the eternal thanks of the MTA national leadership team!

WILL CORPORATIONS GET THE RIGHT TO VOTE?

The headline reads, “Montana Considers Giving Corporations The Right To Vote” — laughable if it weren’t true.

Legislator Steve Lavin, a member of American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), introduced the bill, which to the legislature’s credit was quickly tabled in committee. Even the most uninformed citizen understands that voting is for people, not corporations.

Wait a minute, following this attempt to endow more rights to corporations by giving them the vote, the Supreme Court heard arguments to weaken key provisions of the Voting Rights Act (VRA). After a number of states passed ALEC-sponsored Voter ID laws last summer, and this latest exploit to undermine the VRA, it is clear there’s an effort to minimize the power of ‘we the people’ by limiting our access to the ballot box, while simultaneously maximizing the power of corporations and businesses by giving them the vote.

Please sign the Motion to Amend petition: http://tinyurl.com/mta-motion-to-amend

It may sound completely wacky, but this is an obvious next step for corporations because they are legally recognized as people. It’s a good thing that the Move to Amend Coalition is educating and organizing in communities across the nation. Only a grassroots movement determined to restore the power of ‘we the people’ can overcome the money and power behind ALEC.

In order to be effective, we must keep growing our community, which is why we have set a goal of 500,000 signatures on our Motion to Amend petition by year’s end, nearly doubling our supporters. It doesn’t matter which side of the aisle you sit on. Ours is a non-partisan—and winning issue–in red and blue districts alike. It’s in every person’s best interest!

Please sign the petition!

We want people voting, including those protected by the VRA, and we certainly don’t want corporations endowed with the right to vote. Help us build a movement with power enough to reestablish ‘we the people’ as the sovereign rulers of this great nation. Sign the petition today.

Thanks for taking action,

Ashley Sanders, Ben Manski, Daniel Lee, David Cobb, Egberto Willies, George Friday, Jerome Scott, Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap, Laura Bonham, Nancy Price

Move to Amend National Leadership Team

MOVE TO AMEND

PO Box 610, Eureka CA 95502 | (707) 269-0984 | http://www.MoveToAmend.org

We, the People of the United States of America, reject the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling, and move to amend our Constitution to firmly establish that money is not speech, and that human beings, not corporations, are persons entitled to constitutional rights.

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Please help in any way you can.

Talk to other folks about this ongoing encroachment upon your liberties!!!  Greedy, vile vermin want to own you!!!! Control you. Economically enslave you and with the corporate control of so many aspects of all levels of government and with too many politicians obeying their corporate masters I fear the future freedom of the masses of common folks are in dire danger.

We also need to fight back to remove those greedy claws the corporate entities have already sunk into the “flesh” of our society, country, culture, government and the many systems that combined equal the whole that is the USA and everything within.

The enemy is not at the gates; it is inside and wrapped around every part of you and me and everything around us.

FIGHT FOR FREEDOM

The Police can be a Friend or an Enemy

I am a civil, law-abiding citizen.

I have stepped in when thugs wanted to harm others and stopped them.

I assisted a California Highway Patrolman battling a drug-crazed scum who had ran his car into a pick-up with a family of four within.

That scum was getting the better of the cop with the cop having to devote his effort to keeping the thug from getting hold of his pistol.

My jumping into the fray and wrapping adrenalin-powered arms around the scum’s throat ended that battle!!!

Wheeeeeeee!!!!!!!!

I mention the above because I am going to lambaste the behavior of the jack-booted thugs in the article linked-to below:

 

Man claims police harassing him over legal grow house

 

USA Public Education is Brainwashing

Why should USA citizens pay so MUCH money for Kindergarten to 12th-grade education when MUCH of the money spent is to create a multitude of bureaucracies sucking up immense amounts of wealth and providing lucrative employment, benefits and excellent retirements for bureaucrats and highly-placed administrators?

Also, perhaps most importantly, those 12 to 13 years of schooling is a major component of the USA’s ruling elites and their lackeys thorough indoctrination/brainwashing of the masses of USA common folks.

Please notice how the upper-crust of the USA often send their kids to the proper academies where those in the know are aware that the indoctrination those despised commoner kids are deluged with does not occur.

Future elites are taught realities that those elites attempt to hide from the commoners they rule and skim so much wealth from.

I remember the lies spewed by President Obama and his cohorts and accepted and conveyed by the elite-owned mass media when Obama first became president and moved into the White House.

When asked where his kids would go to school Obama declared he did not want public school kids to be bothered by or have to contend with Secret Service agents protecting his kids.

Instead of a public school where commoner kids are brainwashed… Obama’s kids and their protectors went to a private academy!!!

So– the students at the academy will not be bothered by the agents OR

That private academy will not expose Obama’s kids to the garbage shoved into the heads the masses of despised commoner kid’s heads are flooded with?!!!

Take a guess, folks.

Do Your Duty: Save the USA

 

Motion to Amend – Sign the Petition

 

We, the People of the United States of America, reject the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United, and move to amend our Constitution to firmly establish that money is not speech, and that human beings, not corporations, are persons entitled to constitutional rights.

 

To sign the petition click——->  HERE

 

From the Move to Amend main page:

 

 

We the People, Not We the Corporations

 

On January 21, 2010, with its ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the Supreme Court ruled that corporations are persons, entitled by the U.S. Constitution to buy elections and run our government.

Human beings are people; corporations are legal fictions.

 

We, the People of the United States of America, reject the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United, and move to amend our Constitution to firmly establish that money is not speech, and that human beings, not corporations, are persons entitled to constitutional rights.

 

The Supreme Court is misguided in principle, and wrong on the law. In a democracy, the people rule.

 

We Move to Amend.

“. . . corporations have no consciences, no beliefs, no feelings, no thoughts, no desires. Corporations help structure and facilitate the activities of human beings, to be sure, and their ‘personhood’ often serves as a useful legal fiction. But they are not themselves members of “We the People” by whom and for whom our Constitution was established.”

~Supreme Court Justice Stevens, January 2010

 

A Kindred Spirit

Walking out the Wal-Mart doors with the goods paid for the alert system began flashing red lights and a recorded voice began ordering me to stop and return.

That alarm sensed I had merchandise not paid for ergo, I was a THIEF!!!

When I have seen this event happen to other folks they stopped and returned with nary a soul ignoring the non-human command.

Yet one of many indicators that the USA human herd consists primarily of well-indoctrinated citizen-sheep.

Obey your ruling-class masters. Obey corporate USA. Obey their bureaucrats. Obey their hired lackeys. Obey the figurehead lackey politicians. Obey their enforcement personnel; especially the jack-booted thugs.

Disobey the jack-booted thugs and pain, physical damage or even death can result. Even if you do obey the thugs that pain, disablement or death can still occur!!!

Obey every single law, even the laws in place just to maintain a status quo required by the elite masters to maintain their stranglehold upon We, the People  Serfs.

Failure to obey the elite’s laws that are akin to slave chains and the punishment for disobeying can ruin you for life, even take your life if you are falsely accused and convicted of a crime allowing the death penalty. Since you are likely a mere commoner with limited to no wealth you may be unable to prove your innocence.

“But, Old Coot, the USA law declares that the law has to prove your guilt!!!”

Yes, that is what the life-long propaganda proclaims but in reality… the “law” can be akin to quicksand sucking you under as you helplessly flail about.

Having a legal system is a requirement for a civilized society but everything human created and operated is subject to abuse in many ways.

And the USA ruling elites have used and abused the legal system for their own devious, greedy desires.

Back to obeying those sensors at the retail store exit that inform all nearby that you are departing with an item(s) not paid for… STOP THIEF!!!!!

And the complacent, fearful, indoctrinated sheep obey the alarm and meekly await for security to allow them to leave after determining that no stolen goods are present.

Bring USA Troops Home Now!!!

Listen to the masses of the commoners you despise you politician figurehead lackeys of the wealthy people and entities you bow down to.

 

Bring the Troops Home!!!

 

We, the People, the ones you upper-class filth despise yet skim so much of the wealth we create to support your life-styles and use that massive wealth to become powerful and buy others to perform the deeds that enslaves the majority of the USA population demand you bring the troops home NOW!!!

There are many reasons to bring them home but a major reason is the need to have them destroy the fake federal government used to enslave the masses.

Also needing destruction or major alterations are the many institutions, bureaucracies and systems that are used by the few to enslave the many.

The well-entrenched propaganda systems that convince so many that as things are is correct and proper must be altered. Using those systems to brainwash people is immoral and a travesty.

I do not support censorship but after extensive study of how propaganda has been used in various “communist” and totalitarian societies I detect a scary similarity within the USA.

I shudder with dread when I continuously view the USA educational systems being used to indoctrinate folks during their formative years.

The USA wealthy and powerful elites have and continue to use many methods to maintain the systems that have made their socio-economic group so very wealthy and powerful.

Why does a supposedly free people allow themselves to be economically enslaved and their cultures artificially altered to convince those within that culture that all is correct and proper, despite their economic predicaments.

There is no present method other than a full-scale military coup to make any meaningful changes in a government, society and cultures controlled by a few atop the socio-economic hierarchy and by extremely wealthy and powerful corporate structures.

 

Bring the Troops Home!!!!

Growing Grievances Possible Disgruntlement then Anger?

I wonder if the advent of the Web has led to what appears to be a growing number of USA residents unhappy with the status quo. The ability for the masses to bypass the elite-owned mass media and local media and spread/share ideas, thoughts, experiences and so many other parts of our lives has altered society.

Status quo:  a Latin term meaning the current or existing state of affairs.

Maybe more folks are discovering that a small percentage of wealthy and powerful people have created many systems, institutions, bureaucracies and other entities that are used to skim the wealth created by the HUGE number of common folks (non-elites) and create barriers within the many systems within the USA to minimize the number of folks who can rise above their lowly position on the socio-economic  hierarchy (“hierarchy” will be used later for the lengthy term “socio-economic hierarchy”).

My Opinion Right or Wrong

John Kennedy stated in a speech:  “If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.”

Sorry Mr. President… this is the “new & improved” USA and a multitude can suffer in many ways as long as the deserving ones atop the socio-economic pile are taken care of. The care those special, deserving folks are entitled to… at least in the minds of many within the upper socio-economic levels and the sadly too many well-indoctrinated commoners at the lower levels of the hierarchy.

 

“And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country.”

 

A Criminal Supported by Those Engaged in Class War Against You

“Eventually police arrested the suspect: Her real name is Benita Cardona-Gonzalez, in the U.S. illegally, now charged with aggravated identity theft. It’s still unclear how she stole the information.”

Extreme identity thieves live as you They can get jobs, go to the doctor, buy homes, files taxes without you knowing

When it suits their own purpose(s) the mass media, in its ever-present grasping for more wealth, will mention a very common occurrence within the USA:  an illegal alien invader stealing a citizen’s identification and using it for personal gain.

Immense harm that is costly in time, your wealth, your credit rating and who knows what else may happen depending upon circumstances.

A few years ago while researching the MANY horrors forced upon USA citizens by illegal alien invaders welcomed by many of the USA elite ruling class, many corporations, lackey figurehead politicians and too many USA citizens who place ethnic loyalty far above any loyalty to the USA as a country or society I found a few reports about USA citizens having to prove they do not commit crimes performed by an illegal alien who used a stolen ID to shift the blame to another.

The “System” Works!!!

Monday October 22, 2012 and the Disgruntled One is Web wandering peeking at news stories and comments placed below the stories.

I try to ascertain the “moods” and beliefs via the opinions, comments and various written utterances of the populace from those comments.

While performing this task I have the Today TV show that I mostly ignore unless something yanks my attention from my nifty Acer-brand monitor I bough on sale at Wal-Mart and, sadly, was made in China. I wonder if that Mitt critter assisted in sending anything computer-related out of the USA? If not him another greedy vermin of that upper-crust socio-economic class that spits upon We, the People surely did so.

Anyway…

 

Rough Tough Romney Boy

Hoping to bolster his own foreign policy credentials, the Republican presidential challenger said he would identify and organize those in the Syrian opposition who share American values, then work with American allies to “ensure they obtain the arms they need to defeat Assad’s tanks, helicopters and fighter jets.”

 

Romney stresses support of Syrian rebels

 

Romney… I have read and seen pictures of you supporting the Vietnam Conflict but you never even entered the military.

People of your socio-economic class seem to be quick to send people in the lower classes off to fight, bleed and die in foreign lands.

Do people of your ilk feel that you are big and tough and a hombre not to be messed with since you have the power to send others to do the dirty work?

Maybe it would be best if you did become the main figurehead lackey infesting the White House.

 

If you behave and act as I expect you to as president I believe support for the military coup that destroys what your socio-economic class, corporate USA and many minions and cohorts have created and starts anew.

A day of reckoning is overdue and your actions, if elected, may be the proverbial straw that breaks the camel’s back.

 

Causes of Disgruntlement

Oh Disgruntlement, let me count the ways…

So many. So very many causes for my Old Coot Disgruntlement.

One is being indoctrinated from my earliest years into believing that all is as it should be in the USA.

We Are Number One!!! USA USA USA!!!!

With time, experience and education my brainwashed eroded.

Disgruntlement ensued.

And increases.

“In 2011, the six heirs to the Walmart empire commanded wealth of almost $70 billion, which is equivalent to the wealth of the entire bottom 30 percent of US society.”

I have been working-poor my entire life, doing the jobs “Americans will not do” and performing the tasks required for the USA to function on a day-to-day basis.

Where would the ultra-rich of WalMart be without a multitude of workers doing the daily tasks and who are paid a low wage and few to no benefits?

The American Dream Has Become a Myth

 

That link lurking above is but one of many essays I have read over the years that enlightened my thinking about life in general.

“…we have become a divided society. America has created a marvelous economic machine, but most of the benefits have gone to the top.”

If only the many-millions of invaders competed with those at the top of the economic pile. Then us commoners would not be unfairly competing with those infiltrators for jobs, housing, social services, etc.

 

“Much of the inequality that exists today is a result of government policies.”

 

Well, it is the wealthy folks and their corporations, special-interest groups and others that well-reward their lackey politicians and bureaucrats so divinely when those lap-dog anti-We, the People leave office or position. And done so legally.

 

The USA is screwed and I believe a growing number of citizens are believing that.

But the screwing continues unabated and the vermin begging for money and votes, the scum wanting to be the next main figurehead lap-dog lackey of their wealthy masters, spew the drivel too many citizen-sheep bleat their delight with.

The brainwashed masses who believe their vote at the federal level actual means something… that their socio-economic superiors’ lackeys will consider them above and beyond the consideration of those who will ensure they depart office and hobnob with those elites and receive their financial rewards.

Yeah… go ahead… play the political game, suckers.

And wear your self-applied mental slave chains with pride.

 

 

 

BRING OUR TROOPS HOME NOW!!!!

I admit I am not privy to the information the USA politician scum who are mere figurehead lackeys of the USA’s elite classes, corporations, special-interest groups, etc. have access to.

I am far removed from the bureaucrats and bureaucracies involved with assisting the vile, scum, putrid politicians and all the other people and institutions that whisper into the ears of the USA’s so-called “leaders” who decide to send the common folks of the USA to foreign lands to fight for some reason.

The past few years I keep hearing the well-brainwashed people of the USA spewing that those troops have fought terrorism to “protect our freedoms.”

What freedoms have you lost?

The ability to move to a new area? How about voting? Writing a blog entry? Well, you have lost the freedom to not have some government lackey fondle your body attempting to board an airplane.

But that may be necessary since our borders are wide open to anybody wanting to stroll across a border with the intent to harm us.

I sincerely doubt that the mid-east terrorists had or have the ability to truly remove our many freedoms.

But, that freedom phrasing is excellent spewing material to jostle the masses of citizen-sheep’s emotions and make them compliant and accepting of the ruling master’s politician lackeys.

A few folks who have cast off some of the brainwashing do not bleat their contentment with the USA’s masters and the master’s politician and bureaucrat lackeys, though.

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Sign the Military Coup Needed Petition

Hello. Welcome to the Disgruntled Old Coot’s blog.

In several posts I have written about my belief that the USA federal government and many other institutions, etc. are beyond repair due to being controlled by a very small percentage of the USA populace.

Toss in my belief that the USA is in the midst of class warfare and that voting at the federal level is a farce and can not result in any meaningful change within the vast forces arrayed against the masses of citizenry and I fear that a full-scale military coup is the only method available to make the required changes within the USA.

Here is your opportunity to voice your opinion if you agree that a military coup is needed.

USA Military Coup Needed NOW!

“The federal government is beyond repair, Voting at the federal level is meaningless. Corporate USA has become the new slave owners and the masses of USA citizens are economic slaves and our slave chains are self-applied mentally via life-long immersion within many propaganda systems.

 Only a full-scale military coup can make any meaningful change within the USA.”

 

Coot Kindred Spirit

The S.H.A.M.E. Media Transparency Project takes the war against corporate trolls and media shills to a new and more effective level. Its goal is to expose corrupt media figures, document journalistic fraud and make life a little harder for covert propagandists who manipulate the public, degrade our democracy and help perpetuate oligarchy power.

S.H.A.M.E. was inspired by our readers and donors, who are tired of the rampant media fraud and deception, and want some way to fight back and reclaim our democracy.

“The purpose of S.H.A.M.E. is not to merely document media crimes, nor simply to humiliate or call out hypocrisy. The project is about providing useful, fun and effective tools the public can use to protect itself from being manipulated by sophisticated public relations con-artistry.

Think of S.H.A.M.E. as a kind of roach trap for media shills and corporate lackeys.

Yasha Levine & Mark Ames

Founders of the S.H.A.M.E. Project”

 

Read more —-> Read!!!

 

I found the Web site today and read just a small part of the site but it seems to me they possess at least a couple of the beliefs that led to my Disgruntlement.

I created this post to assist folks in finding a Web site that may be useful to you!!!

Your helpful Old Coot at work!!!

USA citizens Brainwashed and Lied to. Class War is Real.

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WOW!!!

The babbling spewer of statistics gurgles with apparent glee that in a 1 month period an estimated 135,000 jobs were created!!!

USA!!! We’re Number One!!!!!

Of course… never a mention about what type of jobs were created.

How many were low-paying with no benefits?

No health insurance or, if that insurance is available is it so expensive that after paying for it the wage has been devoured by the cost leaving nothing to live on?

It happens, folks.

Or maybe there will be a whopping 30 bucks per week to cover all or part of the transportation cost to get to work then return home.

Also not mentioned is how many of those jobs were part-time.

Oh BOY!!! Let’s celebrate. An $8 per hour job at 15 hours weekly took a person out of the unemployed category!!!

Happy days are here again and there’s a chicken in every pot and those financial worries are behind us!!!

We’re Number ONE!!!!

Time to peek at what may be semi-accurate data about the current USA population:

314,322,475

 

USA Citizens Under Attack by Lackey Thugs

Police admit to infiltrating Occupy Austin, may have acted as provocateurs

“…charged with a felony and face jail terms of from two to ten years under what the Statesman calls “an obscure statute that prohibits using a device that is manufactured or adapted for the purpose of participating in a crime.”

 

The ruling masters of the USA use many institutions, bureaucracies and other embedded systems to maintain their lofty positions within society.

Disobey the master or their lackeys and your freedom, wealth and even your life may be forfeit.

I have no problem with law enforcement keeping an “eye” on “things” to assist in keeping We, the People safe BUT…

When law enforcement becomes jack-booted thugs ensuring the despised commoners obey their masters the proverbial line has been drawn.