bringtheruckuss, Dear Big Coal: You’re Not Above the Law - How many times can a corporation break the law and continue to exist? Inside the fight to revoke Massey Energy’s corporate charter.

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Dear Big Coal: You’re Not Above the Law - How many times can a corporation break the law and continue to exist? Inside the fight to revoke Massey Energy’s corporate charter. →

A majority of U.S. Supreme Court justices and some politicians like to refer to corporations as “persons.” Few actual people, though, could get away with years of lawless behavior resulting in injuries and deaths, and the destruction of entire communities and ways of life. To do that takes the protection of a corporate charter and a legal and regulatory system that has succumbed to concentrated money and power.

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Another reason I fucking hate West Virginia. So many pro-coal bumper stickers and so much mindless propaganda. I was...
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onefootinthegrave said: I want to talk about how much Massey Energy is everything I hate in this goddamn world…………..
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