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A Weekly Column By Walter B. Hoye II
Conflict Of
Interest
In the abortion debate, is there a "Conflict of Interest"within
the Black community and among her leaders?
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Personhood: Corporate Personhood
"On January 21st, 2010, with its ruling in Citizens United v.
Federal Election
Commission, the Supreme Court ruled that corporations are
persons, entitled by
the U.S. Constitution to buy elections and run our government.
Human beings
are people; corporations are legal fictions." MoveToAmend.Org,
dedicated to ending
corporate rule and empowering democracy. 1
Move To Amend (Learn More)
By definition, Corporate Personhood allows
corporations to have rights and responsibilities similar
to those of a natural person. By way of the Fourteenth
Amendment (Amendment XIV) to the United States
Constitution (adopted on July 9th, 1868), our courts
have interpreted the word "person" to extended
certain constitutional protections to corporations.
MoveToAmend.Org is a bold coalition of
organizations and individuals dedicated to ending the
illegitimate but legal doctrines that prevent the
American people from governing themselves. 2
Motion To Amend (Learn More)
"Corporations have no consciences, no beliefs, no feelings, no
thoughts, no desires," wrote Stevens. "Corporations help
structure
and facilitate the activities of human beings, to be sure, and
their 'personhood' often serves as a useful legal fiction. But they
are
not themselves members of 'We the People' by whom and for whom
our Constitution was established." John Paul Stevens,
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States,
Dissenting Opinion in Citizens United v. Federal Election
Commission, 558 U.S. 08-205 (2010)3
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MoveToAmend.Org's "Motion To Amend" 4 reads as follows:
We, the People of the United States of America, reject the U.S.
Supreme Court's
ruling in Citizens United, and move to amend our Constitution
to:
Firmly establish that money is not speech, and that human
beings, not
corporations, are persons entitled to constitutional rights.
Guarantee the right to vote and to participate, and to have our
vote and
participation count.Protect local communities, their economies,
and democracies against
illegitimate "preemption" actions by global, national, and state
governments.
Personhood: Human Personhood
"Act XIINegro Womens Children To Serve According To The
Condition Of The
Mother: WHEREAS some doubts have arrisen whether children got by
any
Englishman upon a Negro woman should be slave or free, Be it
therefore
enacted and declared by this present grand assembly, that all
children borne in
this country shalbe held bond or free only according to the
condition of themother, And that if any christian shall committ
ffornication with a Negro man or
woman, hee or shee soe offending shall pay double the ffines
imposed by the
former act." Act XII, Laws of Virginia, December 1662, Hening,
Statutes at Large, 2: 170. 5
California Human Rights Amendment (Learn More)
Even before the foundation of the United States of
America (Virginia, December 1662 6), our leaders
have repeatedly and deliberately failed to understandthat
personhood is intrinsic to being human.
Today, the California Human Rights Amendment 7
understands this and gives "We, the People of the
United States of America" an opportunity to finally get the life
issue right. Perhaps
Ronald Reagan, the 40th President of the United States
(1981-1989) and the 33rd
Governor of California (1967-1975), said it best. "Despite the
formidable obstacles
before us, we must not lose heart.
Thisisnotthefirsttimeourcountryhasbeen
dividedbyaSupremeCourtdecision[Roev.Wade]thatdeniedthevalueof
certainhumanlives. The Dred Scott decision of 1857 was not
overturned in a day,
or a year, or even a decade. At first, only a minority of
Americans recognized and
deplored the moral crisis brought about by denying the full
humanity of our Black
brothers and sisters; but that minority persisted in their
vision and finally prevailed.
They did it by appealing to the hearts and minds of their
countrymen, to the truth of
human dignity under God. From their example, we know that
respect for the sacred
value of human life is too deeply engrained in the hearts of our
people to remain
forever suppressed." 8
The California Human Rights Amendment is the final chapter of
the Civil Rights
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movement. Let's work together and finish the job.
Brothers, we really need to talk.
Reference(s):
1. MoveToAmend.Org, "We the People, Not We the Corporations"
(http://bit.ly/6g6i0k).
2. Ibid., About Us (http://bit.ly/9qShxp).
3. Associate Justice Justice Stevens dissenting opinion
(http://bit.ly/5MEPOJ).
4. Motion To Amend (http://bit.ly/kRGO3u).
5. Act XII, Laws of Virginia, December 1662, Hening, Statutes at
Large, 2: 170, (http://1.usa.gov/pMnhrJ).
6. Ibid.
7. California Human Rights Amendment (http://bit.ly/ubu5hT).
8. "Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation", President,
Ronald Reagan penned this in an article for The Human Life
Review,It ran in the Review's Spring 1983
(http://bit.ly/lTf36U).
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