From: Forrest Bishop (forrestb@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Tue Apr 09 2002 - 02:28:42 MDT
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FB:
> > Companies, megacorps, and so on do not engage in cognitive processes, such as profit-seeking, this is solely the realm of
individual
> > human beings.
>
SA:
> Interesting. Then why exactly are corporations treated as a
> legal entity, a separate extra-biological being with intent and
> liability as such?
This is a legal "theory" that apparently started with the 1898 US Bankruptcy Act ( a pivotal year in the overseas extension of the
American Empire). The word "person" was redefined to include such fictious entites. This is an ex post facto "law" as the word
"person" is already employed in the US Constitution. That Act of Congress, along with the Federal Reserve Act (Dec 23, 1913), the
Trading With the Enemy Act (1917, amended 1933), the Federal Insurance Contribution Act (1935), the Buck Act (1940), several
Executive Orders (e.g. #6102, 1933), the un-ratified 16th Amendment, and a few others, form the basic "theory" behind the unlawful,
unconstitutional corporate State and its Administrative Code (e.g USC, WAC). This is just of the top of my head, some of the dates
might not be precise.
> Corporations are collections of human beings
> and thus exhibit collective cognitive processes.
What is a "collective cognitive process"? Cognition is resticted to the individual human, barring telepathic communication channels.
> And yet they
> are considered an entity in their own right ...
In court.
> > Uh, no, nor did I write such. Monopolist outfits such as the aforementioned three would cease to exist in a violence-free
market.
> > They are the spawn of regulatory agencies, old-boy networks, etc. Labling it crony socialism is just as useful as calling it
> > fascism, neo-mercantilism or crony capatalism.
>
>
> So you are claiming that an absolutely unfettered, unregulated
> market would produce nothing but good?
No.
-- Forrest Bishop Chairman, Institute of Atomic-Scale Engineering www.iase.cc
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