[clue-talk] The War On...?

[Nate Duehr]

On Tuesday 28 December 2004 05:16 pm, Tommy Phillips wrote:

> Hello, McFly?  They have more Lawyers, Guns,and Money
> than you do.  If you get caught, and they decide to
> make an example of you, it's your own fault.

What worries me about this is two-fold:

- Corporations under the law are given the same rights as Citizens but have 
vast resources available to them that most Citizens do not.  (Money to buy 
lawyers, mainly.)

- The U.S. has a higher per-capita ratio of Citizens already imprisoned than 
any other Free nation.

Thus, whenever Corporations do not wish to provide what Citizens want, or the 
Corporation feels threatended by shifting markets and values, they employ 
truckloads of lawyers to bring Citizens into lawsuits where those same people 
are usually incarcerated or financially ruined fighting if they did nothing 
wrong.  

Citizens ask for better protection laws from their representatives, but those 
representatives are wined and dined by Corporations.  I believe ultimately 
this means that major campaign finance reform is necessary to see long-term 
health in this matter.

-- 
Nate Duehr, nate at natetech.com