Corruption
The Supreme Court has rewritten the Constitution to ensure that the
rights and protections now cover corporations.
The Supreme Court has been extending constitutional protections
under the 1st, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 14th Amendments,
securing the corporate right to spend billions of dollars through
political action committees (“soft money”) on
political campaigns and Washington lobbying,
immune from public knowledge or scrutiny.
The conditions of corporate influence have been the perfect
breeding ground for savings and loan scandals that cost the public
billions of dollars: Enron accounting scandals,
Putnam mutual fund fraud, and Wall Street currency
trading scandals just to name a few in our recent history.
It is government and corporate corruption that led to the
implosion of the government system in the Soviet Union -
not the Reagan policies that may have been publicized.
The details of how to create change and that changes
the need or desire for corruption exist in the book
A Different Path.
Gallup poll shows 75% of Americans
believe that there is widespread
government corruption.
Dan Rather explains how the corporate
agenda influences the media.