How many corporations died at Lexington and Concord?

[bluesbassman]

That’s right, none.

At Bunker Hill? You are correct again, none. As a matter of fact, in a quick search of major and minor battles fought in the Revolutionary war, not one corporation was listed as having been killed in battle. Oddly enough, not one corporation was even mentioned as having fought in any major or minor battles. Strange isn’t it?

Stranger still is that in every record of blood being shed in defense of our nation, not one drop of corporate blood is mentioned. You would think that an entity as deserving of rights as a corporation would be mentioned more in the records of sacrifice and suffering. Of course a lot of corporations are mentioned in the annals of armed conflict; it's just that they are mentioned as having profited from them.

So go ahead Scalia, Roberts, Thomas, give corporations more rights. Make them equal in every way to a living, breathing citizen of this country. But don’t ask them to fight and die for “their” country. Even if they could, I have the feeling that they would probably decline.

[Art_from_Ark]

1. I had always wondered why the Japanese characters for "corporation"

translate literally as "legal person", or slightly more loosely as "legally a person". The characters probably date from the time that the US was bestowing "personhood" on corporations.. At any rate, I guess one could argue that corporations are "people" insofar as they are run by "people", but as you said, as an entity, they prefer to let the peons fight their wars while they (the "legal persons") profit from them.

[ddeclue]

2. You've obviously missed LMCO's and Boeing's TV ads..

If you saw any of them you'd believe that they were there at Lexington Green defending us all.

:rofl:

[donheld]

3. Corporations have no conscience

Of course most republicans don't either that's why they get on so well together.

[aquart]

4. That line needs to be on bumperstickers and t-shirts.

[Fumesucker]

5. About as many as at Normandy, Anzio..

Or Guadalcanal..

In other words, none..

All animals are equal but some are more equal than others.