[governance] corporates and ethics

[Jefsey]

At 18:26 06/07/2014, parminder wrote:
>It is these corporations that are to sought to be given special 
>political rights by the 'equal footing' MS brigade, to be on the 
>policy making table and making political decisions, for all of us. 
>...  The US public, and its civil society organisations, are still 
>reeling under the impact of the US court ruling to allow unlimited 
>corporate contribution to campaign financing, on the basis of a 
>novel political construction that corporates have the right to 
>freedom of expression, which cannot be diluted under the first 
>amendment. This judgement, many in the US and abroad feel, is having 
>the impact of spinning US politics so much away from its democratic 
>foundation that soon it may be difficult to consider US as a really 
>working democracy.

You are right ("this ruling strikes at our democracy itself", "I 
can't think of anything more devastating to the public interest" (Obama)).
However, the US do not claim to be a democracy, but a Republic. 
Please reread Aristotle about democracy.

>But that 'novel political construction' of allowing corporates to 
>have human rights was nothing. The 'equal footing' MSists go much 
>much further; they want corporates to have voting rights and 
>decision making powers for public policy matters. The rest of world 
>has simply not waken up to this demon, which is making slow but 
>serious progress, although somewhat clandestinely, against the 
>values and institutions of democracy.

The "equal footing" MSism "including states", means that 
corporations, people and states are on an equal legal duties and 
rights levels. This is the whole idea behind TIPP and TAFTA, except 
that they are not on a practical financial equal footing. The general 
internet understanding (cf. RFC 6852) is creeping towards a 
plutocracy of the offer, and a polycracy of the demand. (polycracy 
means the self-process of non-state-boud/supported crowds) This is 
entirely a new situation in the human history permitted by the free 
people digital interconnection (I suppose Carlos will find it far-fetched).

Voltaire said that Prussia was not a realm having an army, but an 
army having conquered a country. The US strategy tends to show they 
are not anymore a democracy with an industry, but an industry that is 
attempting to conquer the world.

I am afraid that the Internet is one of the battle flieds and the 
ICANN/NTIA transition is a key skirmish in this campaign.

jfc







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