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

 

Profit MUST be our Main Concern

“American Dream”: Food loaded into Dumpsters while Hundreds of Hungry Americans Restrained by Police

I fear that the linked-to story may disappear so I am reproducing it here to assist in spreading a story I believe is of immense importance to We, the People.

Quoted story follows:

Residents filled the parking lot with bags and baskets hoping to get some of the baby food, canned goods, noodles and other non-perishables. But a local church never came to pick up the food, as the storeowner prior to the eviction said they had arranged. By the time the people showed up for the food, what was left inside the premises—as with any eviction—came into the ownership of the property holder, SunTrust Bank.

The bank ordered the food to be loaded into dumpsters and hauled to a landfill instead of distributed. The people that gathered had to be restrained by police as they saw perfectly good food destroyed. Local Sheriff Richard Roundtree told the news “a potential for a riot was extremely high.”

“People got children out here that are hungry, thirsty,” local resident Robertstine Lambert told Fox54 in Augusta. “Why throw it away when you could be issuing it out?”

SunTrust bank is trying to confuse the issue and not take direct responsibility for their actions. Their media relations officer Mike McCoy, stated, “We are working with store suppliers as well as law enforcement to dispose of the remaining contents of the store and secure the building.” Yet he also said that the food never belonged to SunTrust Bank.

There is no need to sugar coat what happened. Teresa Russell, chief deputy of the Marshal’s Office in Richmond County, said the owner of the building ordered that the food be taken to the landfill. Some people even followed the truck to the landfill and were still turned away.

In Richmond County, there are about 20 evictions per day, and the area surrounding the supermarket is one of the poorest in the state. According to the last available data, the poverty rate is 41 percent. Many people in that parking lot probably knew all too well how evictions work, and were in desperate need of the food assistance.

This story is not some bizarre exception. It reeks of the truth of capitalism and is strikingly similar to the H&M scandal that broke in 2010 when clothes were being shredded before being thrown away, so as to make sure the value of the merchandise was unaffected.

In a capitalist society, the motive behind the production of food is not to feed people, housing is not made to give them shelter, clothing is not made to keep them warm, and health care is not offered primarily to keep people healthy. All of these things, which are and should be viewed as basic rights, are nothing other than commodities—to be bought and sold—from which to make a profit. If a profit cannot be made, usually due to overproduction in relation to the market, the commodity is considered useless by the capitalist and destroyed.

In this case, it appears the bank simply did not care. For the banks that have made their profits through evictions and foreclosures, it is little surprise that they showed no remorse in leaving people staring in disbelief, with empty bags, as they watched the food that could be feeding their families dumped into a landfill instead.

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Follow the link at the top of the page for the entire story and pictures.

I raise my voice and fist in anger at so many events within the USA that I believe is in the throes of class warfare.

I try to be fair, though, and make allowances for some behaviors or try to explain some acts that appear to be evil but may be acts forced upon folks due to the system we live within.

Lawyers and the legal system have had immense effects upon USA society, government, economic system and many other aspects of life within the USA.

The fear of being sued may have been at least partially to fully responsible for the thrown-away items being dumped.

The threat of lawsuit and the actions taken to avoid that threat has had profound effects upon all of us.

The lawsuit threat is complicated and all-encompassing and beyond inclusion in my blog.

A Web search will reveal a huge horde of pages discussing the topic.

If only good, usable products were not thrown away… especially if their are poor folks around who can use those items!!!!

Could laws be passed to protect folks who give free things to poor folks to prevent their being sued?  Use common sense when passing out free things. When in doubt, throw it out!!! Only give away items that a reasonable person would assume to be safe, not out-dated food that might cause sickness, etc.

I now take a moment to shout a huge:

   THANK YOU!!!!

to all the firms who do not throw away leftover food and unsold items. They give the stuff to local charities that assist hungry folks and those facing rough times who are helped so much getting some free stuff such as toiletries, clothing, toys for kids, etc.

Have a wonderful week, folks.

Please remember that there IS a LOT of misery within the USA… a country with immense wealth concentrated into a few hands that has been skimmed from the efforts of others… even those eking out a very meager existence.

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

USA Invaded, Multitudes of Citizens Harmed… Elite Ruling Class and Corporate USA Pleased

Here in Missouri the invasion of illegal aliens sneaking across the border to work, play, drink and drive, rape women and children, murder USA citizens, steal identities causing immense monetary harm to innocent USA citizens and MANY other negatives is not as severe as seen in other states such as those closer to the south-western USA border, North Carolina and Georgia and a few other states impacted especially hard by the invasion.

In the past 3 months I have heard of only two murders against USA citizens committed by illegal alien invaders.

And the numbers of illegals hereabouts are small enough to not cause the HUGE cost of renting increase experienced in other ares with hundreds-of-thousand to millions of invaders.

There IS the negative impact regarding employment in a state with a large percentage of working-poor, low wages, high unemployment and usually few to no job benefits.

Every job stolen by an illegal alien is yet another USA citizen kept out of a job… and the excess number of workers assists in keeping wages low.

Despite the relatively minor impact of illegal invaders upon Missouri and the media, typically downplaying the havoc created by those invaders, a local poll indicates that the masses of common folks, even in an area with minor problems compared to other areas, is unhappy about being invaded.

 

Elites Protecting Their Enforcement Arm

“…this law has nothing to do with the right to work (RTW), as everyone involved knows; that is just the spin from the anti-labor coalition. This is why police unions and firefighters’ unions were exempted. The Republicans were trying to buy off these workers with special favors, not singling them out for punishment.”

 

Michigan Republicans Deny Police Officers and Firefighters the Right to Work

 

“Unions don’t just raise the wages of the workers who are members. Unions raise the wages of all workers, since in an environment where unions are common, employers realize that they must pay a competitive wage in order not to give workers an incentive to unionize.”

 

Fire fighters are not enforcers of the elite’s well-crafted status quo that ensures much of the national wealth flows ever-upwards into their greedy claws… that is the domain of law enforcement and the courts.

Fire fighters were included in the “police buy-off” because it would be too difficult to separate them and make the elite’s bribe of law enforcement too obvious. Even the well-indoctrinated citizen-sheep may start questioning the elite’s motives.

Two-Faced Idiotic Anti-USA Federal Government

Okay… I admit that governments are a necessity and that all governments suck in many ways.

Most, perhaps all, governments have at least a few good points, I suppose.

Even that idiot infesting North Korea… that super-elite scum fat-boy deserving of a brain tumor infestation in my worthless Disgruntled Old Coot Opinion ™.

Hmmm… the latest warlord-like “beloved leader” of N. Korea is…. Kim Jong-un

Compared to the main government of North Korea the governments of most of the world appear to me as much more desirable!!!!

Even as bad as N. Korea’s government is consider what life might be like if there was no government.

Would bandits and packs of thugs roam the countryside raping, killing, stealing and possibly enslaving the masses of common folks even worse than they are living within that disgusting-to-me Jong-Dong-Sclong-Wrong-un or whatever led travesty of a governing entity?

 

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

 

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.”

 

Voting at the Federal Level is a SCAM!!!

I encourage folks to read “The Irony of Democracy” or one of the many other books covering the topic of the ins-and-outs of the creation of the USA federal government and what the Founders intentions were.

Basically, from the get-go, the USA federal government was intended to be controlled by an elite class.

I understand why the elites did that.

My decades of life experiences, observations and education has led to my viewing the average, typical run-of-the-mill USA resident as an idiotic imbecile lacking the needed interests and desire to be a capable citizen existing within a constitutional republic.

Of course, many folks are simply too busy leading their daily life to devote the needed interest and/or time to being an involved member of the electorate.

 

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.

Scam the Common Folks for Fun and Profit

Found randomly on a blog over yonder across the road, over the hill and across a few dales while upon the dusty trail I read the blog author’s autobiography.

“One ill-fated day my father received notice of termination by his parent company. In his mid-fifties at the time, he lost the entire company share of his pension that had been contributed over the years. Our family was devastated. It seemed so unjust to me, and I felt a lot of sadness for my father.“

I have read too many times on the Web and read/heard via other media and during real-life conversations with various folks about how money placed in various pension “plans” disappeared before the worker could receive any benefit from those funds.

That money does not just… disappear.

Somebody gets that money and it is not a “regular Joe,” one of the common folks who create the country’s wealth via their labor.

There are MANY scams, schemes and sundry systems created by a minority of folks that allows them to skim off much of the country’s wealth.

The life-long propaganda forced upon USA residents minimizes the justifiable outrage of the many common folks whose wealth has been stolen from.

The propaganda so effective at brainwashing the masses minimizes greatly our banding together to seek revenge or to alter the elite-created systems that harm them so often.

Hey!!!!  USA!!!  We’re  Number One!!! Love it or leave it!!! We have the best (insert anything here) in the world!!!  And a multitude of meaningless rhetoric used to brainwash the masses to obey the ruling masters,
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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…

 

Old Coot Feels His Pain

The class war continues.

My best job as an adult came when I was in my early 40s.

14 months later the outsourcing began.

I was among the first 1,000 laid-off as the obs were sent overseas.

Within 3 years all the jobs were gone from a firm that had, at one time, allowed over 7,000 average working-class folks to attain that ill-defined middle-class lifestyle.

Real health insurance at an affordable price.

Several pension plans… take your pick.

Low-price stock purchasing plan.

Folks bought houses, sent kids to college, bought goods and services and pumped money into the local economy.

That era is mostly gone.

 

High-Level Government Agencies Hate the Common Folk

This post is MY opinion. My writings are NOT the opinions of the many linked-to articles and/or copied & pasted items I use.

What follows is a copy of a press release created by low-level law enforcement folks who are not vile, scum, putrid lackeys of the USA ruling elites, corporate USA, etc.

 

We Should All Be Sports or Movie Stars

The adage declares “America needs ditch diggers, too.”

How you interpret that emotion-based meaningless statement depends on too many factors to cover here.

My interpretation is biased and based upon my own experience and education.

Stated quickly… work you commoner scum. Do the tasks needed to allow an industrialized country/society to function.

Do that work for minimal pay and thus at the lowest possible cost to the deserving folks atop the socio-economic hierarchy.

Never complain!!!  Just be grateful you have a job.

So, your pay is very minimal and you are worried that if that “ObamaCare” thing smacks you in the face and since you are one of many without access to health insurance… heck, you can barely afford even the barest essentials of life, since you do not have health insurance you will be forced to give up WHAT to pay for that insurance? Give up a meal or two or three or more weekly? Pay that fine for not doing what the ruling master’s lackey and other parts of the elite’s federal government has ORDERED you to buy?

Screw you commoners. Your only duty is to OBEY and serve your betters you commoner filth scum.

And there is a HUGE army of lackeys and jack-booted thugs ready to force you to obey.

Remember, it is your own fault if you are not at the top of the socio-economic hierarchy yourself.

Following is the news story that compelled me to rush over to my Land of Disgruntledness and write this entry.

The Elite’s Plan & Scam is Working Fine

“…some American cities and metros face levels of inequality comparable to those in the poorest nations of Africa and other less-developed parts of the world.”

 

The High Inequality of U.S. Metro Areas Compared to Countries

 

“Income inequality in America has reached levels not seen since the Gilded Age“

 

 

Assist our Beloved Ruling Masters

Happily rush off to fight yet another foreign war too often started by the lackeys of our beloved elite-class ruling masters, corporate USA and others ready to make any sacrifice to preserve their beloved status quo that ensures the rulers maintain their wealth and power.

Well, make that “any sacrifice”  as any sacrifice the despised looked-down-upon scum commoners has to make to protect and preserve their masters.

Our indoctrination systems are so incredibly effective that a majority of the citizens support their masters!!!

However, even when the masses disagree with the dictates of the master’s lackey politician figureheads that disagreement is typically ignored.

“Vote the bums out,” many well-indoctrinated citizen-sheep bleat.

Okay… fine.

But with the elite-owned and operated systems firmly in place those systems combined with our brainwashing ensures that a lackey figurehead politician is merely replaced with another elite-approved lackey; especially at the federal level.

States and local governments are not as strictly controlled as the federal-level political scam but local elites also wield much power and local propaganda tied into nation-wide propaganda exerts its relentless influence.

Obama… One of Your Buddies Requires Your Pro-illegal alien Assistance!

“A former church volunteer will serve a life sentence in jail after pleading guilty to sexually molesting nine young boys and teenagers.

Cesar Pastrana, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, pleaded guilty to the charges against him inside a Cobb County courtroom on Friday afternoon.”

Former church volunteer sentenced to life for molestation

Follow the link for the entire sordid story and a video.

 

Some brain-dead idiots and politically correct brainwashed buffoons assist in keeping their beloved “immigrants” inside the USA.

 

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