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Court Declares Corporations Are People, Some Human Beings Are Not

Discussion in 'Politics & Religion' started by iul, Feb 13, 2008.

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In evaluating allegations that U.S. military forces deprived four British men of human rights during two years they were held captive in Guantanamo Bay prison, a U.S. appeals court found an innovative way to let the Bush administration off the hook. Two of three judges ruled the men -- because they are not U.S. citizens and, technically, were not imprisoned in the U.S. -- were not legally "persons" and, therefore, had no rights to violate.

While those judges were defying common sense and decency by denying legal personhood to living human beings, an appeals court in Boston has been reviewing an April 2007 decision by Federal Judge Paul Barbadoro that engaged in a different form of judicial activism -- granting human rights to corporations.
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http://reclaimdemocracy.org/personhood/guantanamo_human_persons.php

Some humans are not persons but corporations are. Interesting

iul, Feb 13, 2008 IP

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