Cartoon for January 29, 2010
Let freedom ring! For abstract legal entities, anyway.
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The one thing about corporate persons is that they're DEATHLESS. Just like Osama bin Laden. Despite dozens of knowledgeable sources claiming that he's been dead since late 2001 or early 2002, I just saw another headline "Bin Laden blasts US for climate change", with the last sentence of the story reading: "The new message, whose authenticity could not immediately be confirmed, comes after a bin Laden tape released last week in which he endorsed a failed attempt to blow up an American airliner on Christmas Day." Osama Inc.'s cheerleading for the underwear stooge was on another tape which couldn't be confirmed. So, let's hear it for Osama bin Laden Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of al-CIAda. Now that he's joined the ranks of anti-American ecoterrorism, Osama Inc. will proceed to announce his support for single-payer healthcare, removing US troops from Haiti's airport, abandoning high-stakes standardized testing in public schools, solar and wind power, mass transit, an increased minimum wage, re-regulation of banks and the Tobin tax, and - of course - Ted Rall cartoons. LOL!
I've been waiting for you to comment on this.
It's a two-fer and it's freaking funny! Thanks Ted. Made my Friday
Thank you, Esteban. It is driving me absolutely bat-shit crazy that not one BIGQUOTE reliable BIGQUOTE news source calls out the fact that OBL's been dead for years.
He was shooting "nyah nyah nyah" videos in caves in the middle of nowhere for years and then suddenly he can't afford videotape? What, did his battery run out?
Who wants to bet that the tapes are made by Henry Kissinger's enema boy from the clinic? Probably the same cat that made the "damning WMD evidence" tapes Colin Powell trotted out to the world.
OSAMA BIN LADEN IS DEAD AND HAS BEEN FOR YEARS, PEOPLE. WE ARE PRETEND-CHASING A GHOST.
Why don't CNN, NY Times, LA Times, ANYONE mention this? No one even posits a hypothesis. It's like I'm trapped in another dimension and am forced to watch a bunch of morons eat each other's poo, with no way to stop them. Yes, just like jury duty.
Ted, this is one of your most brilliant works. Not laugh out loud guffaw, but profoundly insightful in conneting ludicrous dots.
I live between Havana and Beijing. I was living in Havana when the first prisoners arrived to Guantanamo. Every Cuban, from academics to people on the street asked me, "Of all places, why are they bringing them here?" I said right then and there forthrightly "so they can torture them."
One last thing, do a cartoon about this: we have no McDonald's in Cuba, except for the military base at Guantanamo Bay. I remember this vividly...for a time they were actually telling the prisoners "if you tell us what we want to hear, we won't torture you, and on top of that we will give you some McD's French fries," (no joke here, it even made the American press).
Keep up the good work. Cuidate. Tomas
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Let freedom ring! For abstract legal entities, anyway.
And unions!
I get tired of saying "We're fucked", but it just...keeps...happening!
I'm with you progressives. No more cash from, and government (taxpayer) handouts to Planned Parenthood® Federation of America Inc. a CORPORATION.
The other thing I really like about this cartoon, is the lawyer. He somehow manages to look Nosferatu-like and have a comb over simultaneously - brilliant!
Here's a news flash for you reactionary progressives. A corporation is a collection of one or more persons. Somewhere you were brainwashed to have a negative reaction to the word "corporation". Try thinking for yourselves for once.
Anonymous troll:
A corporation is NOT merely a collection of one or more persons. It is a legal entity mandated to seek and maximize profit.
Real persons and groups have interests beyond seeking profit--which is the sole reason corporations exist.
If your sole reason of being is to make money, you're not a person, you're a psychopath. And it's simply stupid for a republic to allow rich and immortal psychopaths to tramp over our society and government without regulation.
Becoming a corporation is not a natural right. It is a benefit granted by the government. Corporations exist because the government allows them to. Unlike you or I, or any other real person, a corporation owes its existence to the government, which should be able to limit its activity for the common good.
This is a very simple matter. I cannot understand why anybody other than a fascist* would support "corporate rights." But, of course, there's a deep fascist component in the American character.
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I'm using the word properly here. Historically, fascism is marked by a devotion to corporate interests.
Do any of you know why the government banned corporate contributions in 1907? It was called the Tillman Act introduced by RACIST DEMOCRAT Senator Benjamin Tillman Senator from South Carolina. RACIST DEMOCRAT Senator Benjamin Tillman Senator wanted to silence mostly Republican corporations opposed to slavery.
How many of you learned that in your leftist schools?
Grouchy troll,
The Federal government serves us, not the other way around.
And according to your logic, if seven people get together as a partnership they can address your precious government, but if they fill out a piece of paper and create a corporation they cannot?
I've tried to explain to you before, a corporation is merely a legal entity of people. Like a partnership, an LLC, a foundation, a sole proprietor (think a corporation of one), a LLP, an S-Corp (think John Edwards avoiding Social Security taxes).
You want to kiss the governments ass and thank them for your existence go ahead. The rest of us are going to work and provide for our families (and unfortunately we have to also provide for some bitter 50 year old losers living with their moms.
The government is not our master, it is supposed to be our slave. We don't owe it any thanks at all. It has a job to do; protect our life and property. It's supposed to protect us from Facist lefties who never accomplished anything in life but want to take our property for themselves (and call us greedy BTW).
Grow the hell up and get a job.
The 12:42 anonymous troll couldn't even understand what I've written.
Go back and re-read it.
Or don't.
Grouchy,
I'm sorry I should have kept it simple for you. I was try to point out the fallacy of your hatred of corporations. So for the 10th time: A corporation is just a legal structure. It could just as easily be a partnership, LLC, sole prop.
Were you able to understand now or should I make it simpler for you?
I don't hate corporations.
I just think they need a very tight leash.
As we've established, they're not people, they're legal entities which confer special rights to their investors (namely limited liability). In exchange for these advantages, corporate activities are subject to government regulation.
No one is forcing anyone to incorporate. It's a trade-off.
Any individual is free to say anything he/she wants. But the activities of a legal entity are to be regulated by the government that created it.
That's pretty simple isn't it?
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