Marvin

shu old poop you know all even what another knows. Yeah, part of the libertarin platform is that the good old "three mile island industry" can regulate it's self. A slow drip drip of Boric acid.

Martin Buber

schu

Libertarians are the classical liberals. Jefferson's ideas were very much libertarian. One should expect neither special rights from the government nor a teat to suck on.

The special rights corporations receive is protection of the assets of the owners (stockholders) when the corporation is sued for violating the rights of individuals.

If corporations didn't have this "right" they would be a lot more careful that their products or services didn't harm people or property. It would also have the effect of making the stockholders be more aware of the company they were investing. They would only be willing to invest in companies that respected the rights of individuals.

I'm aware that this isn't generally accepted or understood by libertarians, but it should be.

enemigo

I've been doing a little more research on the foundation of corporate personhood in America and I found an mp3 of a very informative 30 minute interview with the author of the book mentioned in the original post:

http://arizona.indymedia.org/uploads/corp.mp3


richard