-Caveat Lector-
Ralph Nader: June 19, 1996
http://www.nader.org/opinions/oe6.19.96.html
South Africans should be aware that a key provision of the
nation's new
constitution risks entrenching a new form of power abuse in
the country --
autocratic rule by big corporations.
South Africa's new Constitution establishes that "juristic
persons are entitled
to the rights in the Bill of Rights to the extent required
by the nature of the
rights and of the juristic persons." This provision affords
fundamental
constitutional protections -- freedom of expression,
political rights and
guarantees of privacy -- not just to people, including those
within
corporations, but to the artificial entity of the
corporation itself.
The American experience of providing corporations with
similar rights that
people have should ring alarm bells for South Africans
concerned about
preserving their newly won freedoms. While the U.S.
constitution does not
explicitly afford corporations the rights guaranteed in our
Bill of Rights, court
decisions have extended almost all those rights to corporate
entities, with
disturbing results.
The American experience makes clear that the constitutional
language
covering "juristic persons" creates direct conflicts with
several of the South
African Constitutional Principles of 1993, including the
assurance that real
persons will have political rights, associational rights and
rights to life,
security of person, the environment and information.
Nurev Ind Research wrote:
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> Here's why...
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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [IMC-DC] The U.S. Supreme Court Again Side with Corporations
> Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 19:22:31 EST
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> REFERENCE::
> http://search.npr.org/cf/cmn/cmnpd01fm.cfm?PrgDate=11/07/2000&PrgID=3
>
> Environment Case (14.4 | 28.8) -- NPR's Nina Totenberg previews arguments in
> today's Supreme Court case, which poses a fundamental challenge to federal
> regulatory powers. At issue is whether Congress acted within the
> Constitution, when it ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to enforce
> the Clean Air Act of 1970 by setting clean air standards based on public
> health. (8:44).
>
> via the Rangoon Post - Free Burma Independent Media
> 2000-11-07 Tuesday
>
> Again the Supreme Court is siding with the National Foreign Trade Council
> and the multi-national corporations. This time the court is ruling against
> Congress' decision some 30 years ago on the Clean Air Act.
> I ask, why are the Supreme Court justices allowing themselves to be
> manipulated and bending the U.S. Constitution in any manner they wish? Or is
> it that the justices corruptly beleive they are above the law and can out
> vote the people of the United States?
> Previously this year on at least 2 other cases, the Supreme Court has
> stepped on our Constitional Rights. The Burma Selective Purchasing law is
> one example. The people of the state of Massachusettes used their rightful
> vote to help the people of Burma. But the NFTC and the Supreme Court said it
> was un-constitutional.
> But then, whose Constitutional rights come first ? The people's ? A
> state "For and by the People...". The State Department ? Does it have
> rights? Or the Corporations.
> Unfortunately, corporations due to a rule that allows the corporation to
> be sued, also allowed it to have rights as an individual.
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