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The BBC show...

4/25/2014

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Some of you may recall that late last fall one of my talks on the US Constitution was filmed, in Worcester MA, by the BBC for a new "reality" show they were doing.


That show, "Almost Royal," will be airing this summer.


Info on the show is available at the link below.  Absolutely unknown at this time is whether or not anything from the Worcester talk has been included in the final edits, and whether there has been an attempt to accurately portray (within the limits of a fictional, comedic, show) the talk and the Worcester Tea Party group that hosted it -- or if they decided to go in the direction of cheap, stupid, out-of-context, let's make these colonials look like racist scum. Time will tell.


http://www.bbcamerica.com/almost-royal/
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Movie coming soon!

4/8/2014

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No idea if I made the final cut, but I was one of the people interviewed for this movie.  


The debut is in May, and after the Tax Day Rally in Boston this will go on the "Events" page as well.  Watch the trailer and get more info at the link below.

http://www.intolerable.us/
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SCOTUS and another BAD (=unConstitutional) decision; this time on corporate contributions to political campaigns

4/5/2014

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Another example of the perversions (twisting out of something's natural shape) that are inevitable when decisions are based on precedent and case law, instead of Original Intent.


Corporations are NOT people, nor are they entitled to the Natural Rights of humans. 


They are created entities, given, BY STATUTE, privileges equivalent to SOME of the inherent, unalienable, RIGHTS of NATURAL people, for the specific purposes of allowing them to own property, pay taxes, and to be sued should they cause harm. 


Earlier SCOTUS decisions (over the course of decades) attributing more and more of the characteristics of natural persons TO corporations, are based on a perverted reading of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution. 


While there should be no legal limit to the amount natural, flesh-and-blood, individual HUMAN persons can donate to political causes, there is ABSOLUTELY NO CONSTITUTIONAL JUSTIFICATION for ONE PENNY to be donated by the artificial creations called "corporations" -- or PAC's, or (most especially) UNION's, either.


As for those who claim that corporations (or unions) are "merely" assemblages of natural persons -- no.  Not in this circumstance.  Any of those natural persons who are associated with a corporation may surely give their OWN money -- but your assertion tacitly implies full consent and agreement of EVERY employee, director, and customer. 

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