ATDTDA (5): The American Corporation

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          Dave Monroe:
          Not to step on anyone's (John's, Paul's, whoever's) 
          toes here, I HOPE,but, while circling back to The 
          Vormance Expedition, this again caught my eye ...

             "'Evolution.  Ape evolves to man, well, what's 
          the next step--human to what?  Some compund 
          organism, the American Corporation, for instance, 
          in which even the Supreme Court has recognized 
          legal personhood--a new living species, one that 
          can out-perform most anything an individual can 
          do by himself, no matter how smart or powerful he is.'" 
          (AtD, Pt. II, p. 147-8)

Excellent catch, Dave, and a great example of just how dense
and multivalent AtD really is. There's a fantastic example of
another misuse of the 14th Amendment in Burton L. Mack's
"The Christian Myth" that I'll dredge up just as soon as I get 
home. But yeah---the creation of the Corporate Behemoths
that have exfiltrated with our funds and futures in the late
1800's, a great thread and a useful pointer to those "entities" 
who really hold power in our world.