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  <title>Can we waterboard corporations yet?</title>
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  <author><name>Jeremy Weiland</name></author>
  <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://www.christopherketcham.com/?p=135">Christopher Ketchum on corporate personhood</a>:</p>

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  <p>…so, for example, I can’t take a corporation out in the backyard and bury it alive. I can’t smack a corporation flat across the face and break its nose. I can’t take a corporation’s head and split it with an axe, nor can I chop off all its fingers, nor stab out its eyes with a rusty screwdriver, nor burn off its flesh with a blowtorch, nor flay it with an electric sander, nor stomp its kneecaps with a sledgehammer, nor cut its head off and parade it around the room on a broomstick, nor use its entrails as a rappel rope, nor smash its testicles with a spiked bat, nor do any of the things that really should be done to corporations these days - if they were people - but which one would never do to a human being. If only corporate persons would finally show their fleshy faces.</p>
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<p>Vicious? Yes. But nothing that Blackwater corporate person wouldn’t do to you for the right price.</p>
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