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CorporationsThe laws that had been thrown up to protect the people
from the corporate beast were ripped down as violations of constitutional due process. The infamous "Santa
Ana" case, in 1886, marked the demise of a nation of men and the coronation of the new king, the corporate
state. The rights of the new monarch now included protection against unreasonable searches and seizures under the
Fourth Amendment, and corporate attorneys, taking advantage of the corporation's due process protection, often
delayed and deterred effective regulation designed to safeguard the public. Ironically, the same court that decreed
that Dred Scott, a slave, was property, granted to the corporation, a non-man, the sacred rights of citizenship. Fruit of the Loom Corporation announced plans on Tuesday, November 11, 1997 to lay off more than 2,900 workers and close a Louisiana plant as it works to save money by moving production to other countries. The cuts come less than a month after the company had already shed thousands of workers, many at the same plants hit by today's announcement. The Chicago-based company said it has given 60-day notices to 1,035 employees in Kentucky - 220 employees at a plant in Campbellsville and 815 people in Jamestown. In Louisiana, about 1,880 people were losing their jobs - 920 sewing and support staff in Jeanerette, 638 workers at St. Martinville, and 315 sewing workers at an Abbeville plant, which was being closed. The American dream becomes the American Myth!
JudgesJudges in American invent evidence to substantiate their
decisions. Chief Justice Waite of the United States Supreme Court told the lawyers before "Santa Clara v.
Southern Pacific Railroad's" proceedings began, "The Court does not wish to hear argument on the question
whether the provision in the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution, which forbids a State to deny to any person
within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws, applies to corporations. We are all of the opinion that
it does." Later examination of a journal for the joint committee that drafted the Fourteenth Amendment revealed
no evidence to support the Court's representation. TelevisionTelevision, potentially the greatest weapon for democracy
ever invented by man, now totally in the grip of corporate America, is used to exert an inexorable control over
our lives. And behind it, the new king hides its criminal face and its bloody hands. What we are permitted to see
on television is what suits the mentality and purposes of corporations. I am against fostering the myth of a free
media when the media is, in fact inaccessible to the people. I am against the media so taunting us with the crimes
committed by our neighbors that we virtually hurl ourselves into the arms of the police demanding protection they
only too willingly give - provided we adopt their view of our Bill of Rights as a pesky collection of loopholes
through which criminals are permitted to escape. Already we are beginning to applaud the courts as they chisel
away at the very pillars of liberty that have long distinguished us. Today, we are being trained to hate our hard-earned
rights against self-incrimination and unreasonable searches and seizures as the weapons of crime, not freedom.
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