Hi Tim, Forwarded message:
Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 13:55:36 -0700 From: tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May) Subject: Fairness, Justice, and Cypherpunks
Several recent messages have raised issues about "ownership of information," "compilation of dossiers," and the (putative) imbalance between personal power and corporate power (which some think justifies denying corporations certain basic rights or Constitutional protections).
Businesses (and government) have no rights under the Constitution and should enjoy no rights under the Constitution. Rights are the sole purvue of real live human beings (ie individuals) and not groups or paper individuals (stupidest idea I have ever seen in the legal field). It is not reasonable to support a motion which allows a group to have the same or possibly more rights than the individuals that make it up. Business should not get the right to vote, they should be completely prohibited from being involved in politics even to the point of making contributions to politicians. Eisenhower once warned this country of the military-industrial complexes threat, we have ignored it to date. Jim Choate