Corporations own the majority of media outlets and the majority of media outlets never use the words "corporate crime." I'm shocked I tell ya. Shocked!

Corporate crime is no more widespread or influential in this world than oxygen, hydrogen,or nitrogen. I just don't see the problem.

Corporate = crime

Private tyrannies.

Nader says begin by removing personhood status and revoking corporate charters. But who's going to do it?

M$M

Look, if Jesus, Mohammad, Buddha, and the the ghost of John Wayne popped out of bush's pillow cushion and told him to get our of Iraq, if these deities pleaded before Congress and Senate to stop making war, stop polluting, and stop treating corporations as if they were people, and treating people like they don't matter. Give everyone health care, food to eat, shelter and a chance to learn. And there WILL be a limit on what any one person, company, or corporation can own, how much wealth they can accumulate and power they can yield. And we don't care if you call that communism, socialism, or whatever, we call it fair. If they went on and told us that it's stupid to have private banks, who's CEO's are unknown and unanswerable to anyone, to print our money and loan our money back to us at rates loan sharks would envy. Still nothing would change.

We don't have countries anymore. We have mega-multi-international-corporations (MMIC)that control governments that give us the illusion that we have a say in the affairs at hand. There is NOTHING democratic about a corporation.

Pelosi, Waxman, Conyers, aren't listening to us. They don't work for us. They're shills. The very few brave enough to stand-up to MMIC are marginalized or murdered. The MMIC owns or controls most of the government, the military, the police, the courts, the churches, the media, most of what you eat, drink, wear, drive and live. Until we stop buying their products, until we allow the people to have more power than all the corporations combined, instead of the other way around, and until we tear down the walls that have been built around our own humanity we're all fools in a prison of no walls.

Com_n_sense says:

"And there WILL be a limit on what any one person, company, or corporation can own, how much wealth they can accumulate and power they can yield. And we don't care if you call that communism, socialism, or whatever, we call it fair."

Well done. I second that.

Corporate Crime is probably the one thing that should be politically neutral. You would think the tough on crime conservatives would be all over this one, along with the labor crowd. Not to mention many conservatives want business to be fair, and therefore should hate cheaters despite their belief (however foolish it may be) in the free market. Alas, I live in dream world.

On the great con-job that is the corporation as legal person and the politics of its origins, see Nader's 'The Case for Federal Chartering', in Ralph Nader & Mark Green (eds), Corporate Power in America, Penguin, 1973.
Also snippets in David Korten's 1998 The Post-Corporate World: Life after Capitalism, and his 1995 When Corporations Rule the World.

Omniscient, Invisible Hand of Capitalism

The most rational argument for progressive taxation is to prevent the rich from becoming so rich that they can corrupt and subvert Democracy. Since that's already happened, doesn't it make sense to start taxing the rich at higher rates? Especially since many of the rich, who derive most of their wealth from government contracts, which are paid for by middleclass taxpayers, end up paying lower tax rates than middleclass taxpayers. What with all the loopholes they've instigated into law, some government contractors pay zero taxes.

We have a government of government contractors, by government contractors, and for government contractors. Not only do they collect a lion's share of the nation's annual income, they have devised and implemented a government and tax system that rewards them immensely and disproportionably by paying lower taxes on higher incomes. Essentially, our government and tax system has been so corrupted that corruption has become the government.

Everyone knows that power corrupts, but we seem to have forgotten that money first corrupts power.

So spare us the fanatical worship of the Omniscient, Invisible Hand of Capitalism, these greedy assholes aren't Omniscient or Invisible anymore.

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I believe this article identifies the metaphorical "dead elephant" in every American living room. Corporate influence is also the way by which our political system has been broken. Checks and balances have come to mean monetary contributions and the scales to weigh them. Welcome to America, brought to you by Fortune 500.

Corpirations are our masters. We are considered nothing but tax revenue, profit producing units to be manipulated via Media Marketing.

We are the fish these sharks feed on.