[net-gold] UNITED STATES: POLITICS: POLITICAL PARTIES: REPUBLICAN PARTY, TEA PARTY : INDUSTRIES: PETROLEUM INDUSTRY : POLITICS : POLITICS: PRESSURE GROUPS : LAW: LEGISLATION: The Stealing of America: The Incestuous Relationship Between Government and Corporate America
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The Stealing of America:
The Incestuous Relationship Between Government and Corporate America
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The Stealing of America:
The Incestuous Relationship Between Government and Corporate America
John W. Whitehead
Posted: 04/17/2012 10:00 pm
Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-w-whitehead/
alec-corporations_b_1428103.html
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/8aaetjx
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"The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the
velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on
their door. That's the only difference." -- Ralph Nader
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The U.S. Supreme Court's landmark 2010 decision in Citizens United v. FEC
not only gave unfettered free speech rights to corporations but paved the
way for unlimited amounts of money to be poured into election campaigns,
especially those of presidential candidates. However, what really made
that ruling so significant was not that the Court granted First Amendment
rights to corporations -- formerly reserved only for individual citizens
-- but that in doing so, the Court legitimized an incestuous relationship
between government and its corporate controllers.
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Although big business and government have always had intimate relations,
that relationship was at one time governed by a tacit understanding that
the government's first priority was to protect the individual rights of
its citizens, while corporations -- private entities, separate from
government -- were free to concern themselves with making a profit.
Unfortunately, the rise of the corporate state over the past 70 years (a
development that both President Eisenhower and Martin Luther King Jr.
warned against) has done away with democratic government as we have known
it. In the process, the interests of mega-corporations have been
prioritized over those of the average citizen. Nowhere is this emphasis on
corporate profit at the expense of the American citizenry more evident
than in the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).
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A nonprofit membership organization which purports to uphold principles of
"limited government, free markets, federalism and individual liberty,"
ALEC is comprised of state lawmakers and corporate representatives with a
mutual interest in seeing legislation adopted at both the state and
federal levels. ALEC was founded in 1973 by a number of conservative
activists. About 2000 state lawmakers are presently members of ALEC, or
roughly a quarter of state legislators in the nation. Unlike lobbying
groups, however, ALEC is not required to disclose its relationship with
legislators.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
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