Newsjock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Jun-22-11 01:36 AM
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Boulder council to take up 'corporate personhood' referendum
Source: Boulder Daily Camera
The Boulder City Council will decide whether to put a referendum on the November ballot that calls for amending the U.S. Constitution to abolish "corporate personhood" after all.
Despite being turned down for discussion during the council's May 17 meeting, Councilman Macon Cowles plans to ask the group to put the measure on the ballot during the leaders' meeting on July 19 -- when the council is planning to give initial approval to several potential ballot measures.
... Cowles, an attorney, wants Boulder's referendum to clarify that money is not constitutionally protected free speech and that corporations should not have all the rights that people do.
"The Supreme Court's decision in the Citizens United case undid a hundred years of precedent and electoral reform by unleashing corporate treasuries to spend as much as they want to influence the outcome of elections," Cowles wrote in an e-mail to the Camera on Tuesday. "... I believe that Boulder voters should speak to this issue."
Read more: http://www.dailycamera.com/boulder-county-news/ci_18323...
UrbScotty (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Jun-22-11 02:07 AM
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1. My aunt lives near Denver. If they pass this, and if I go to see her anytime soon... Updated at 5:28 PM
then I just might take a trip up US 36 to support their economy!
1. it's just a referendum to promote an idea. The city cannot abrogate rights
2. if they abolished corporate protections they wouldn't have an economy because every business owner would be personally liable for every frivilous lawsuit coming their way. No one is going to risk his family home because some get-rich-quick asshole wants to sue for the emotional distress of too much mayo on his sandwich.
gtar100 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Jun-22-11 03:16 AM
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2. City by city; town by town
Let's take the legs right out from under them.
We're all 10th Amendmentists now
Macoy (82 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Jun-22-11 07:22 AM
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9. End Corporate Personhood
If we ever want to take our nation back from the corporations, this will be how we do it. You can march and protest all you want, but nothing is going to stop the corporation with the BIG bag of money from telling our Congress critters how to vote.
Removing corporate “personhood†would be a great victory in the Second American Revolution.
Macoy
So long as you include the unions as well.
Scuba Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Jun-22-11 07:02 AM
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6. Grass roots, baby. Poor people from Boulder (Ha!) fighting for all of us. n/t
There are no poor people in Boulder. It's the single-most expensive city in CO because the taxes are so high to pay for all the public services.
As predictable as it is ironic.
Demeter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Jun-22-11 07:18 AM
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8. And so, the third and final phase of the American Revolution Began Updated at 10:49 AM
when, in a small city in the nation's heartland a bold group of citizens began the final transformation from a corporate colony to a free nation, governed by the rule of law, for the People, by the People, for the People....,
a few patchouli reeking hipsters with gray ponytails tossing out meaningless declarations amid a local, representative government = men risking their "lives, [their] fortunes and [their] sacred honour" to oppose the tyranny of the world's greatest superpower of the day
JournalistKev87 (49 posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Jun-22-11 07:47 AM
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10. We can only hope. Updated at 7:47 AM
I hope this gains some traction but I doubt it will go very far. Hope I'm wrong and it sparks something.
It's Boulder...there's LOTS of "sparking"
Slit Skirt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Jun-22-11 10:14 AM
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15. if you want to fight Coffman in CD_6 may I introduce....
a facebook page that has activism
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_1935688506696...
These people are very active and looking for progressives just like you!
So, by their very declaration this individual citizens within this group are personally liable for any and all infractions, both civil and criminal and we should be able to sue them personally for any and all of their personal assets rather than allowing them to divide their assets between what they keep personally and what they contribute to their political activities.
Right?
RIGHT?That's what you're fighting for here you ****ing idiots.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4892243
