Vol. 31, No. 01
January 5, 2015
Letters to the Editor
Corporate People?
All right, I understand there is no issue worth convening an Article V constitutional convention to remedy, but corporations as people, as Christian Gomez advocated in the November 17 issue?
I got a reality check on corporate citizens during the phony “oil shortage” in the early seventies. A Mobil Oil executive on Meet the Press was asked what Mobil was doing to alleviate the situation. His reply: “You have to realize Mobil is a multinational corporation so cannot be overly concerned with the needs of any one particular nation.” Spoken like a true descendant of the merchants Thomas Jefferson referred to as having “no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.”
Unlike us people, those “people” have enormous funds to sway public opinion to feather their own nests. Recently in Oregon, corporate “people” spent $24 million in advertising (more than double the grass-roots sponsors) to defeat a measure requiring labeling of foods containing GMO’s.
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