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I have a new post up at Unclaimed Territory.
posted by A.L. at 1:51 AM
Wednesday, December 27, 2006
Who Am I? For what it's worth, I'm a litigator at a large national law firm (at least until I figure out how to make a living doing this). Until then, I'll just have to go by A.L.
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4 Comments:
A.L.
Can you shoot my idea, the second comment on the new post out of the water on 1st ammendment grounds?
As a lawyer with corporate clients, I would gather you agree a corporation certainly has the right to determine employment application procedures. Why would We The People have less rights in this regard than a corporation?
christopher,
Technically, corporations derive permission for their existence (license) from the government. They are different than The People, whose government is derived from their consensus.
ps. I love your black cat. I have one too and wish he was in hawaii... :-)
A.L.,
I work in the advertising field, and I think that corporations respect laws as much as serial killers do.
Although I am not a lawyer, I would bet that much of advertising law has been crafted by corporations themselves -- to insure their competitors wouldn't be at advantage over them. The idea that laws exist to protect consumers is a little misdirected, I think. Though that's not to say that they shouldn't protect the public, or that the public is safe from exploitation... Only that all the chips are stacked on one side, and probably always have been.
The model then for "consumer protection" laws with regard to political advertising might be to get the political groups interested in protecting themselves from each other. Somewhat of a problem might since I fear most of them would be unwilling to give up the ability to smear their opponents in return for being safeguarded from being smeared themselves. That's more like nuclear disarmament than advertising as hyperbole.
The problem today is media itself... it's owned by a concentrated few corporations whose financial interests dictate their political interests. Television, which has suffered an advertising sales slump in recent years, has made political advertising one of its largest revenue streams...
Anyway, I could go on all day -- I really like your work, and I agree with your sentiment. But I am coming to believe that we're way behind the eight-ball, and that the enemy already has a counter for righteously idealistic informed patriotic action.
BigErns,
It is getting harder and harder to tell the difference between corporations and the government.
I just assume my rightful place as co-CEO of the government and think my employees, politicians, should have to follow my employment application policy. As such We The People should have the same rights granted to corporations in hiring practices.
Corporations who also have been granted personhood should not have more rights than actual humans. I know this is a slight stretch but it isn't tinfoil hat thinking.
My Big Fat Black Cat sends you a purr.
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