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GM is evil. 

They would have been evil even if the EV-1 had never been invented.

Ford: Now there's a truly noble corporation....

Bill Robertson
#5939 

>--- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "timnagin" <timnagin@...> wrote:
>
> And right on cue, the topic is changed when pressed.  Make up your mind,
> Bob.  I thought you were discussing how evil GM is and why we all
can't get
> electric cars that most people do not want.
> 
>  
> 
> http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html#Am14
> 
>  
> 
> Show us where we have any right to force them to build what we want, and
> give me proof.  You never seem to do that when asked.
> 
>  
> 
> Greg
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
>   _____  
> 
> From: DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf
> Of Bob Brandys
> Sent: Friday, January 04, 2008 3:03 PM
> To: DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [DMCForum] 
> 
>  
> 
> Ryan,
> 
> You said "We have absolutely zero right to force someone to build, or 
> not crush,
> electric cars, not even if it's "in (our) best interests." 
> Unfortunately, this statement is not correct. You should check into 
> the history of corporate charters.
> 
> Prior to the civil war all corporation charters were issued for the 
> purposes of corporation serving the public good. The trade of made by 
> government in issuing corporate charters was that the corporation would 
> have limited liability because they were serving the public good. 
> That was the intent of corporation from day 1 and still is in most 
> countries outside of the US.
> 
> What this also meant was that if the corporation was NOT acting in the 
> public interest the corporate charter could be revoked. In fact, this 
> happened a number of times to stop corporate greed prior to the civil 
> war.
> 
> So what's with the civil war? Why is this a turning point? Well, you 
> need to look at the history of the 14th amendment.
> 
> This amendment was sold to the public as giving slaves the right to 
> vote. On the other hand, what this amendment really did was to 
> classify corporations as individuals and remove the right of states to 
> revoke corporate charters when corporations do not act in the public's 
> interests.
> 
> If you look at an accurate history of the civil war, you will see that 
> it was started over an economic issue of tariffs on southern cotton. 
> The whole slavery thing only came on later in the war as the publics 
> interest in the north was waning after a number of losses to the south, 
> Lincoln and his advisors came up with the slavery abolition idea, to 
> continue to sell the war to the north.
> 
> However, it was a back door deal to northern corporations to devise a 
> law that would appear to "Free the slaves" but actually "freed the 
> corporations" to conduct greed wars on the public.
> 
> In fact, over the past 100+ years, the 14th amendment has been used to 
> protect corporation over 996 times, while it only was use 4 times to 
> deal with voting rights for slaves.
> 
> See the video documentaries "the corporation" and "america-freedom 
> to fascism."
> 
> History: if we don't learn from it, we are destine to repeat it.
> 
> Bob
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>




 
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