It is obvious to anyone with an objective viewpoint, such to be had in countries with uncontrolled news, that there has been a takeover in our government’s national and foreign policies. How did this come about? We must look back into history for the answer.
Our history books tell us we fought the American Revolution against King George III and England. They hardly tell us why. Each of the colonies was a corporation chartered by the king, with the right to govern. These colonial governing corporations like The Massachusetts Bay Company, the East India Company and The Virginia Corporation were additional burdens. These faceless entities collected taxes and duties at will. Revolution was the popular recourse.
Not so far in the past, Lincoln closed his Gettysburg Address with the urgent hope in 1863 that our “government of the people, by the people, for the people” would not perish from the Earth. A year later he wrote to a friend prophetically: “I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money powers 0f the country will endeavor to prolong their reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic (Democracy) is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety than ever before, even in the midst of war.”
The “robber barons” of the next forty-plus years chipped away at state charter limitations. (e.g.) – Cornelius Vanderbilt: “What do I care about the law ? H’aint I got the power ?”
In 1886 an obscure case, Santa Clara County vs. Southern Pacific Railroad finally came before the U.S. Supreme Court, presided over by Chief Justice Morrison Waite, a former railroad lawyer. Southern Pacific wanted to settle a tax dispute and other rights under the new Fourteenth Amendment. Waite ruled in favor of the railroad on the tax matter but made no mention of any other issue in court or in his judgment.
Unfortunately, court reporter J.C. Bancroft Davis (a former railroad official) wrote the headnote to the decision in his report to a court news publisher. (A headnote has no legal standing.) In it he put his personal conjecture of the court proceedings as follows: “The defendant corporations are persons within the intent of the clause in section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States which forbids a state to deny any personwithin its jurisdiction the equal protection of the law.” In checking on his published conclusion, Davis later asked Judge Waite if he had been correct in saying the court had ruled on corporate personhood. Waite responded: “We avoided meeting the Constitutional questions.”
Therefore, Corporations do not have the right to privacy, which is granted to individuals: But the “headnote” was carried along in secondary publications assuming unwarranted authority of the initial report. Corporations have ever since been enamored of this clearcut tho’ erroneous statement. Many wrong interpretations have followed. There is no law which grants corporations the right to deny public inspections of voting machines, the sole purpose of which is for public use. First and foremost, there is need of correction.
To go back to our early beginnings: The Continental Congress was convened due to acute awareness of its leaders of the harmful effects wrought by governance thru the corporations. Our Constitution was composed and finalized by the “Bill of Rights”, the first ten amendments. Jefferson and Madison proposed an eleventh amendment. However, their concern was compromised by providing that all the States would include a specified law for the control of corporations. The proposed law provided that to get a charter, corporations had to abide with the following restrictions.
They had to:
• have a public purpose such as education, infrastructure etc.
• have an approved kind of business, could not buy other corporations, and were limited in the amount of capital they could amass.
• observe charter term limits of 15 or 20 years, requiring renewal.
• deal fairly and responsibly with individuals or small businesses.
• not be involved in political activities or lobbying.
Recently, before the make-up of our Courts changed thru attrition, a case in point was fairly adjudicated. In 2002, Nike Inc. was defeated in the California Supreme Court in spite of their backing of much of corporate America in the case of Nike vs. Kasky. Nike claimed that commercial distortions were political speech with the rights of persons. The U.S. Supreme Court decided not to hear the case further. Chief Justice William Rehnquist was heard to say he doubts that corporations can be persons under the Constitution.
A few other cases in the past apparently have been decided on the precedent of the erroneous headnote and should be reversed, not an unheard of occurrence, it could give us back our civil right to a meaningful vote by over-riding the unadjudicated claim to corporate personal privacy which has been used to prevent impartial inspection of the public function of touch screen voting machines of the corporations Diebold- ES&S, Ivotronic, and Sequoia. A claim which has been used to avoid inspection of corporate records or operations of polluters, factories, meat packers, etc., and which has favored giant corporations over small town businesses and governments.
The predominant need of our present dilemma is for members of Congress to propose bills having the original intent of the Nation’s founders in mind and rein-in the usurping power of the self-serving corporate controllers and their followers, letting them know we understand their game. If such changes were achieved, it could pave the way for, not only saving our government and our democracy, but our world.
After rectifying the crimes committed in violation of our constitution, treaties and conventions to which our Nation has agreed, a crime of the greatest imaginable significance should be addressed:
In 1998 a newly created invention was revealed. It had the potential to eliminate air pollution and global warming by eliminating the need to burn wood, coal and oil , and also nuclear fuel, thereby avoiding their negative health effects; eventually creating a near utopia. But one of our governmental agencies disposed of the inventor and his invention. The creator, a self taught genius, was Stanley Meyer of Grove City, Ohio. He was eating in his hometown restaurant. He suddenly realized he was being poisoned and ran to his car. He died in the parking lot.
According to his brother, Steve, federal agents came to Stan’s house a week after the murder and stole everything in his home laboratory. (They probably took his dozen framed patents off the walls too.) They also took his small four-cylinder water fueled car which was demonstrated to run 100 miles on one gallon of water. The car required only a half ampere of battery power to fractionate the water into Hydrogen and Oxygen on engine demand. Naturally, its exhaust was water vapor. Stan Meyer estimated any car could be modified to run on water for less than $1,500. Also, electric power plants could run on water instead of on polluting soft coal
More recently, John Kanzius 63, a former broadcast executive from Pennsylvania with a background in physics and radio has invented a machine in an attempt to treat his own cancer. His goal is to emit radio waves which kill cancer cells while leaving normal cells intact. While testing his machine on a test tube filled with salt water from a canal in his back yard and a paper towel, the paper towel ignited, lighting up the tube. Apparently, the flames were from H2 & O2 of fractionated water recombining. Another possibly practical method of making water combustible was discovered.
In the National Review Online, David Fredoso said words to the effect: To really make a difference (in global warming) scientists estimate America would have to slash carbon emissions by about 90%. The only way to get anywhere near that goal would be to remove every car from the road, ground every plane and shut down most of our electric grid. He’s wrong, it’s not the only way. We must soon switch from fossil fuels (wood, coal, oil and gas) to hydrogen. With a strong scientific initiative, determination, and minimal research, with modifications that do not change any infrastructure while preserving the environment, we could reach that 90% goal.
Notes:
The Water Car
The rights of persons vs. the rights of corporations
Fla. Man Invents Machine To Turn Water Into Fire
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August 2, 2007 © by Arthur Ebbets. This article is posted on http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org Permission is granted for reprint in print, email, blog, or web media if this credit is attached and the title remains unchanged.
