Michel Bauwens: An Act to Criminalize Chartered Incorporated Business Entities

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Michel Bauwens

An Act To Criminalize Chartered, Incorporated Business Entities

a work-in-progress

Richard L. Grossman
West Hurley, NY
October 2011

As of 12:01 a.m. on July 4, 2012, no incorporated business shall exist or operate within the United States and its territories, or within any State or municipality.

As of 12:01 a.m. on July 4, 2012, all existing business corporation charters granted by the United States, and by all States, shall be null and void.

Neither the United States nor any State shall issue new charters for incorporated businesses. Any chartered, incorporated business entity — domestic, foreign, alien — existing and operating after the above date shall be deemed a violent, criminal, and terrorist conspiracy. Its directors and executive officers must be charged with
ecocide, criminal conspiracy and crimes against humanity.

No directors or executive officers of unchartered, unincorporated business entities which may succeed outlawed
chartered, incorporated business entities shall be empowered, enabled or protected

a) by laws, constitutional language or doctrine, jurisprudential precedent, custom, habit, or police power of the 50 States or of the United States which had previously defined, privileged and empowered chartered, incorporated businesses;

b) by laws, constitutional language or doctrine, jurisprudential precedent, custom, habit, or police power of the 50 States or of the United States which had previously bestowed illegitimate legal authority upon chartered, incorporated businesses;

c) by laws, constitutional language or doctrine, jurisprudential precedent, custom, habit, or police power of the 50 States or of the United States which had previously enabled directors and executive officers of chartered, incorporated entities to deny employees standing before the law and fundamental Constitutional authority;

d) by laws, constitutional language or doctrine, jurisprudential precedent, custom, habit, or police power of the 50 States or of the United States which had previously denied people sovereign authority to define and govern our work and workplaces, our communities, our municipalities, our States, our Nation;

e) by laws, constitutional language or doctrine, jurisprudential precedent, custom, habit, or police power of the 50 States or of the United States which had previously denied people of this land our sovereign authority to define elections, to define legislative processes, to interpret laws;

f) by laws, constitutional language or doctrine, jurisprudential precedent, custom, habit, or police power of the 50 States or of the United States which had decreed the private ordering of our economy; that is, which constitutionalized corporate directors’ authority to make decisions on investment, technology, production,
destruction, and the nature – organization of human labor.

As of 12:01 a.m. July 4, 2012, owners of stock in previously incorporated business entities, and entity directors and executive officers, shall forever be liable for all debts, liabilities, assaults, denials, harms, invasions and usurpations committed by any and all successor business entities. The courts of all 50 States and of the
United States shall not be open to stockholders or directors or officers or agents of formerly-incorporated chartered business entities for any claims whatsoever.

Municipal, State and United States officials (elected and appointed) who fail to implement and sustain the  prohibition — and criminalization — of chartered, incorporated business entities after 12:01 a.m., July 4, 2012, shall promptly be indicted and speedily tried for the crime of villainous usurpation — perfidious, felonious,
illegitimate rule exceeding their proper authority — as well as for the crime of dereliction of duty.

Conviction for villainous usurpation or dereliction of duty shall result in immediate removal from public office, forfeiture of all accumulated and future pensions and benefits, plus extreme public
obloquy…for starters. ##

NOTES:

1. As the 19th Century began, constitutions, laws and customs in the new United States denied the overwhelming majority of humans standing and equality before the law, along with authority to vote.

II. As the 19th Century ended, legislative laws, judge-made laws, propaganda, armed might and persistent violence by the corporate class had transformed the United States from a minority-ruled Slave Nation into a minority-ruled Corporate Nation. This despite valiant mass resistance and magnificent people’s struggles. The emerging Corporate State — like the previous Slave State — was impressively constitutionalized.

III. In a Corporate State, law, culture, contrived celebration and tradition illegitimately clothe directors and executive officers of chartered, incorporated businesses in governing authority. This is usurpation. A Corporate State nurtures, enables and expedites such illegitimate governing authority by violence enforced by courts, jails,
police and military force, and by historians. Less-overtly ferocious institutions — forprofit and nonprofit — routinely reinforce that reality.

IV. In a Corporate State, law, culture and tradition enable corporate directors and executive officers to deny true self-governing authority to majorities of sovereign people, despite people assembling over and over and over again to petition governments in village squares and marbled halls.

V. Like kings and tyrants before them, corporate directors and their operatives wield the law of the land, constitutions, elections, lawmaking, jurisprudence, education and “legal” violence to rule the many. They lord over all species, rivers, oceans, mountains, Earth materials, biological and natural systems.

VI. Elected and appointed officials in villages, towns, counties, cities and states and the United States administer this Corporate State on behalf of the nation’s minuscule corporate class. They do not have our consent.

VII. Neither do they represent the majority of life that is non-human — flying people, standing people, crawling people, flowing people, creeping people. They do not represent Earth’s biological or natural systems. By aiding, abetting and enabling corporate directors and executives, public officials are complicit in denial of Earth’s living
realities. Like corporate directors and executive officers, these government officials have been acting beyond their legitimate authority. They are usurpers.

VIII. Corporate directors and executives, in consort with public officials, have long been denying sovereign people access to justice; access to commensurate legal, electoral, and judicial remedies. They have long been denying people’s sovereign authority to govern our communities, states and nation.

IX. Generation after generation, this tiny minority has trained the rest of us not to see, not to think, not to act commensurate with Earth’s — and our — realities. This Act To Criminalize Chartered, Incorporated Business Entities is offered as a step toward changing how we see, think, organize.

Toward changing ourselves.

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Original Source (PDF)

Referral to Above Source

Marcus Aurelius: IRS & DOJ Grabbing New Powers in Hunt for Revenue [But Ignoring Financial Speculators]

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Marcus Aurelius

The IRS & DOJ Are Grabbing New Powers In The Hunt For Revenue

Bruce Krasting|December 24, 2011|
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Two headlines. Similar stories. The first from Switzerland:

US OFFERS SWISS BANKS A DEAL

The United States authorities have offered to lift the threat of legal action against 11 Swiss banks in exchange for information, a Swiss paper reported on Sunday.

This is part of a very long story.  The US Justice Department has been doing everything it can to get the names of US citizens who have Swiss bank accounts. The DOJ damn near busted UBS over this a few years back. Now they are going after the other Swiss banks. The lawyers at the DOJ don’t kid around:

“Give us the names or we’ll sue the shit out of you”.

This second story ratchets things up a bit and brings it home:(Link)

FEDERAL JUDGE GREEN LIGHTS IRS SEARCH FOR CALIFORNIA GIFT TAX CHEATS

A federal district court judge has given the Internal Revenue Service permission to serve a “John Doe” summons on the California State Board of Equalization demanding the names of residents who transferred property to their children or grandchildren for little or no money, from 2005 to 2010.

The IRS has used John Doe summons to seek lists of American taxpayers unreported offshore accounts at Swiss Bank UBS and at HSBC’s bank in India.

Phi Beta Iota:  While it makes sense for the IRS and DOJ to go after tax cheats, what does not make sense is the government's selling us all out to allow speculators to destroy the economy and pay no taxes at all. What these two stories really tell us is that the Obama Administration is continuing to protect the criminals of high finance and their Congressional partners in crime, while seeking its revenue from the “little people.”

See Also:

John Bogle: ENOUGH – Speculation Bad Investment Good

Matt Taibbi: GRIFTOPIA – RECAP

Tom Atlee: Exploring Occupy 2.0 Part IV – Model Community Bill of Rights and Simultaneous Policy

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Tom Atlee

Exploring #Occupy 2.0 – Part 4 – Model Community Bill of Rights and the Simultaneous Policy

Here is another example of the potential of the Occupy movement.

A major focus of Occupy is the need to radically reduce the toxic impact of corporations in our society and on our shared environment. Although corporations have a very valuable role to play, the form and actions of large multinationals and speculative financial institutions, in particular, have become increasingly toxic, and this needs urgent correction.

There are limits to what nations individually can do about this, given the way things are set up at the moment. However, there is great promise in both global action and community level action.

For global action, I find the Simultaneous Policy fascinating: http://www.simpol.org. This is a global network of activists working to design and promote economic and environmental policies that can then be pushed into law all over the world simultaneously. To the extent they are successful, business interests will have a harder time finding places to operate where they can profit at the expense of human and natural communities.

At the other end of the scale of activism – the local community – we find the Community Bill of Rights described below. It “can be used by Occupy cities to begin using lawmaking activities in cities and towns to build a new legal structure of rights that empowers community majorities over corporate minorities, rather than the other way around.”

As we gather energy to rework our economic and political systems so they are truly responsive to the needs of Life, the Simultaneous Policy and the Community Bill of Rights are two potentially very powerful tools we can use together to make a difference.

Coheartedly,
Tom

Model Community Bill of Rights Template for Occupy Communities

Prepared by Jeff Reifman, Envision Seattle and Thomas Linzey, Esq.

The Future of Occupy, December 11, 2011

John Steiner: Alternatives to Existing Banking Services

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John Steiner

There is strong undercurrent of “get out of the banks now.”  Here are a couple of messages floating around, together with the observation to Occupy seems intent on creating an Occupy credit union and global lending network.

How about reviving postal banking? It's been successful here and in Europe,
and it could help save our postal service from insolvency.

Public banking proposed in San Francisco and Maine.

Occupy Update (Inter-Occupy National Initiatives)

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Occupy Update (Inter-Occupy National Initiatives)

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Past Call Notes

Official Announcements and Notes for This Meeting

Informal notes below the line.

 

Direct Report on Media Group

VERY impressive.  Monitoring media better than any government.  Thinking creatively about messaging, outreach.

Discussion of National Hearts and Minds Strategy

Working group forming

Discussion of Need to Release Nikola Tesla’s Technical and Scientific Research

This man was going to unleash FREE ENERGY TO THE WORLD, but his dreams were taken down (mainly) by J.P. Morgan.

VIDEO: About Tesla

VIDEO: How Our Future Would Have Been With Tesla Technology

Petition on WhiteHouse.gov to Release Nikola Tesla’s Inventions

FaceBook Page

Tesla Memorial Society of New York

Stack Items

Multiple Occupy groups investigating how to create their own credit union

Environmental groups seeking to engage Occupy to protect specific areas

Occupy Pittsburg seeking international day of action

PAC has been created for the 99% – www.occupypolitics.org

Jury duty is a very serious responsibility–jury nullification can judge the law itself unconstitutional or unlawful

Electoral Reform proposed for national strategy and attention.

Clarification: Inter-Occupy helps people connect–it is not a national strategy organization nor is it intended to be

Breakout Sessions

1.  Strong desire to continue protesting, but do need to move toward policy / process work.

2.  Lot of interest in creating Occupy credit union local to global

3.  Move to Amend interesting, get money out of politics and close down the Federal Reserve

4.  Decision making structures for Occupy changing

5.  Objection to supporting particular political candidates

Forthcoming:

2012-01-07  Bank Action to Release Nikola Tesla Research

2012-01-21  Citizens United Get Dollars Out of Congress

2012-03-30 Occupy Washington

Comment made that too many small groups all over the place, lacking leadership, need to get everyone focused.  Conflict brought up re 21st, too many Congressmen out of town, better to fold in with the 30th when

2012-05-19  Occupy the G-8 Summit and NATO [Facebook Page]

National Strategy to Win Hearts and Minds: Register for call schedule

Matt Taibbi: GRIFTOPIA – RECAP

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Phi Beta Iota: If there were one book that could be said to have at a minimum lent credence to Occupy when others were scornful, and at best been an inspiration to millions who had ignored many other excellent works in the past dealing with both the corruption of politics and the corruption of finance, that book would be Griftopia–Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America.

As an end of year review, honoring not just Matt Taibbi but all the other works that “connect” to his magnetic “hub” work, here is a RECAP on GRIFTOPIA.

#OWS Rolling Update + US Revolution RECAP

2008 ELECTION 2008: Lipstick on the Pig

America’s Core Values: We the People vs. Them Crooks

Anti-Corruption in USA–A First Step

Blackwater’s New Ethics Chief: John Ashcroft

Chuck Spinney: How Real is Versailles on the Potomac?

CURVEBALL: The Interview + Integrity RECAP

DefDog: Those ‘Coining the Blood of War’ Should Sacrifice Too

DefDog: Wall Street Corrupts Congress Again…

General Electric 2010: No Taxes, Claimed 3.2B Credit

George Soros: Eleven Economic Insights + RECAP

G.I. Wilson: Killer Drones, Moral Disengagement, + War Crimes RECAP

Goldman Sachs Target of Major RICO Lawsuit

Gold Paper About to Crash–Plus Gold Fraud RECAP

Graphic(s): #OWS Facts of Life from Business Insider — 90% of the USA Screwed for 30 Years

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John Steiner: Matt Taibbi with Xmas Message from the Rich

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A Christmas Message From America's Rich

Matt Taibbi

Rolling Stone, 22 December 2011

It seems America’s bankers are tired of all the abuse. They’ve decided to speak out.

True, they’re doing it from behind the ropeline, in front of friendly crowds at industry conferences and country clubs, meaning they don’t have to look the rest of America in the eye when they call us all imbeciles and complain that they shouldn’t have to apologize for being so successful.

But while they haven’t yet deigned to talk to protesting America face to face, they are willing to scribble out some complaints on notes and send them downstairs on silver trays. Courtesy of a remarkable story by Max Abelson at Bloomberg, we now get to hear some of those choice comments.

Home Depot co-founder Bernard Marcus, for instance, is not worried about OWS:

“Who gives a crap about some imbecile?” Marcus said. “Are you kidding me?”

Former New York gurbernatorial candidate Tom Golisano, the billionaire owner of the billing firm Paychex, offered his wisdom while his half-his-age tennis champion girlfriend hung on his arm:

“If I hear a politician use the term ‘paying your fair share’ one more time, I’m going to vomit,” said Golisano, who turned 70 last month, celebrating the birthday with girlfriend Monica Seles, the former tennis star who won nine Grand Slam singles titles.

Then there’s Leon Cooperman, the former chief of Goldman Sachs’s money-management unit, who said he was urged to speak out by his fellow golfers. His message was a version of Wall Street’s increasingly popular If-you-people-want-a-job, then-you’ll-shut-the-fuck-up rhetorical line:

Cooperman, 68, said in an interview that he can’t walk through the dining room of St. Andrews Country Club in Boca Raton, Florida, without being thanked for speaking up. At least four people expressed their gratitude on Dec. 5 while he was eating an egg-white omelet, he said.

“You’ll get more out of me,” the billionaire said, “if you treat me with respect.”

Finally, there is this from Blackstone CEO Steven Schwartzman:

Asked if he were willing to pay more taxes in a Nov. 30 interview with Bloomberg Television, Blackstone Group LP CEO Stephen Schwarzman spoke about lower-income U.S. families who pay no income tax.

“You have to have skin in the game,” said Schwarzman, 64. “I’m not saying how much people should do. But we should all be part of the system.”

There are obviously a great many things that one could say about this remarkable collection of quotes. One could even, if one wanted, simply savor them alone, without commentary, like lumps of fresh caviar, or raw oysters.

But out of Abelson’s collection of doleful woe-is-us complaints from the offended rich, the one that deserves the most attention is Schwarzman’s line about lower-income folks lacking “skin in the game.” This incredible statement gets right to the heart of why these people suck.

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