Sunday, May 8, 2011

unequal protection

It would only make sense that that a corporation or huge business had some rights or laws protecting the corp. What type of laws would they be and who would they be directed toward? I think I assumed like any naïve person, that these laws were to the PEOPLE in the company, the CEO all the way down to the workers.
Now averting your attention for a moment. For the next election, in whatever it maybe, you go into the booth ready to pick whom you think would be the best pick. You find once entering a booth there’s a corporate executive. This executive is in a pin straight suit and hair is perfect they put a hand on your shoulder, look you in the eye with a reassuring smile and tell you “No need to think or use too much energy, I know who you want to vote for.”   With that they turn around fill out the vote and send you off with a thank you for your “right decision”
The people do have rights, but a PERSON in the U.S government has been redefined. Instead of being a living human being as a person normally is, a corporation is now a person. With rights and laws protecting it as any human body does. With a new act that was passed recently by the Supreme Court, now corp. have the ability to spend an unlimited amount of money on a candidate for election. So the executive making your voting decisions isn’t impossible. The over advertisement of any one person is a manipulation tactic that now these “people” can do with what they want. This manipulation wouldn’t be so bad if the candidates for elections had the peoples best interest at heart. But since the persons that actually got them elected were the corporations, the candidates have those type of people interests in mind so that more laws like this are passed.

1 comment:

  1. Hey,
    This is Kalia from Professor Justin Coopers other ENG101 class, I couldn't help by reading through all your blogs the impact you bestowed upon me as a reader and also a writer. Your blogs were very clear and to the point, making it a bit short I felt you should of elaborated more on the topics giving more of your thoughts and ideas.

    You used good examples from the book along with your own, the Food Inc passage I felt was unfinished, you had more to say but stopped, overall as a reader you made me interested and wanting to read more, your blogs make up for good intellectual conversation.

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