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**Ruidselisse** · 02-23-2009, 01:01 AM

We're talking about business practices here, things like pay-offs, pay for play, contracts. A lot of what is being discussed and that goes on within state government (or any government) is actually ILL-legal, but the illegal acts are just not pursued or prosecuted. Wink. Nudge. Thanks for the help. See you at the club.

So ... Whose ethics should be codified? Those that best serve the Republic as a whole. And for the LONG TERM.

Until the US Supreme Court revisits the Court's 1886 ruling in MINNEAPOLIS & ST. LOUIS RAILWAY. CO. v. BECKWITH, where a Corporation was, for the first time, granted the rights of Personhood, then there is no way to get business back into the place where it properly belongs within our society -- acting at the Service to and Betterment for Citizens & the Country and not as the Ruler Over the Citizens. Subsequent rulings in the mode of 1886 have lead us to the point where the Court recently chiseled away at the McCain Feingold Campaign Finance Reform laws, allowing more power to the rich and less to those not as fortunate or resourceful.

We need a newly balanced Supreme Court with a different and sharper sense of what a Democracy really is. Hopefully the USA will have such a newly-reconfigured Court before too long.

02-23-2009, 01:01 AM	#5
Ruidselisse Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 488 Senior Member	We're talking about business practices here, things like pay-offs, pay for play, contracts. A lot of what is being discussed and that goes on within state government (or any government) is actually ILL-legal, but the illegal acts are just not pursued or prosecuted. Wink. Nudge. Thanks for the help. See you at the club. So ... Whose ethics should be codified? Those that best serve the Republic as a whole. And for the LONG TERM. Until the US Supreme Court revisits the Court's 1886 ruling in MINNEAPOLIS & ST. LOUIS RAILWAY. CO. v. BECKWITH, where a Corporation was, for the first time, granted the rights of Personhood, then there is no way to get business back into the place where it properly belongs within our society -- acting at the Service to and Betterment for Citizens & the Country and not as the Ruler Over the Citizens. Subsequent rulings in the mode of 1886 have lead us to the point where the Court recently chiseled away at the McCain Feingold Campaign Finance Reform laws, allowing more power to the rich and less to those not as fortunate or resourceful. We need a newly balanced Supreme Court with a different and sharper sense of what a Democracy really is. Hopefully the USA will have such a newly-reconfigured Court before too long.
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