In Corpus Domini

Was watching something the other day that said in the wake of the 14th Amendment the corporation through a process of 288 court cases established itself as a "person." Meaning that the rights of a person were transferable to this Corporation.

So that is weird.

But I was thinking that if each corporation is a person, then, if a corporation is owned by largely Christian members, that Corporation should then act as a Christian person? Right? Other wise the corporation is being owned by Christians and operated as an atheist? That's really bizzare...

What's more interesting is the whole workers thing. If a corporation is making people work in sweatshops and then telling us that a portion of the proceeds are being donated to help children... i mean, if the corporation is a person, then this person must be insane. Paying people 3/10 of 1% of the retail price for the manufacture of this stuff just can't possibly be ok.

Then we look at the level of pollution that corporations put out. The number of chemicals that have come through "the magic of research" is staggering.

There was a time when public regulation kept these things in check... In the 14th and 15th century there was a shared collective responsibility. Things were shared as commons, the church and lords administered this as stewards...The privatization of everything runs against this idea, and in someway could be considered un-Christian as well.

The same corporation that makes the seed for the food we eat made agent orange and paid 80 million in damages to the guys who spread the stuff during Vietnam. Think on this for a moment... we create seeds that have "terminator" genes in them. After one generation of life every seed it creates is dead. Aside from the the health implications this has (what kind of nutrient does a "dead" seed have when a lot of what we eat are seeds?) this is a new kind of insanity. For thousands of years every human on the face of the earth has worked to keep and refine better and better generations of seeds. Through this process many have survived famine and pestilence. What would we do if all the current seed were corrupted? And we had no others to rely on? Where would our food come from?

If the corporation has the freedoms of a person, then we need to perceive it as such. Do we really want to be around this person? Should we hold this person accountable for its actions? The truth is calling something a "corporation" seems to only make it easy to pass of the incredibly evil and heinous actions as part of a faceless thing that cannot possibly be held for its actions.
If the corporation is a person, it might be a psychopath: Callous unconcern for the feelings of others, incapacity to maintain enduring relationships, reckless disregard for the safety of others, deceitfulness, incapacity to experience guilt, failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behavior...The present day corporation has the diagnosis of a frightening guy.

Fanta Orange was created by Coke for the Nazis.
IBM systems were in place in every railroad and concentration camp.
FDR was undermined by involving General Butler who was fed up with being a "gangster for capitalism" who admitted to setting up a faciast regime. GP Morgan, Dupont and Goodyear Tire were fingered as the main men in the conspiracy.