2004-05-27
21st CENTURY FEUDALISM || ECONOMIC TREASON
corporate nations & their citizens | Perhaps one thing that ain't exactly clear, when considering the idea of economic treason is that those who would commit such crimes, while nominally citizens of some land-based nation, aren't the least bit interested in the sanctity nor sovereign authority of that nation |
Lacking any clear way of recognizing who are ersatz citizens to land-based nations (such as passports or other identifiers) it is by the actions and consistent behaviors of the corporate nationalists which must be used to ferret these interlopers out |
To be sure, some folks may have genuine beliefs that they are only citizens by their landed-nation birthright | Others, more canny, cling to flags of convenience when in reality they pledge loyalty to the nations who support them, and whose aims they attempt to pursue |
The irony here is that, particularly in the United States, corporate nation politicos have increasingly taken over the polity of the people | Pledging fealty (as spoken by their actions) to more fluid nations like ENRON, General Electric, Capitol Cities, and the like, these individuals (Phil Gramm, fer instance) have pushed their own ideological/national agendae at the expense of the safety and security of the US of A | The costs of this are only now surfacing, in the guise of corporate greed |
Greed, indeed, was a factor, but not the only one | Plundering the conquered nation's treasures ("privatizing" for instance) was ~ and continues to be ~ considered fair game for the foreign agents hiding behind Old Glory | Rewriting the laws of the nation ~ as was done during the Newt Gingrich led Contract On America period in the 1990s ~ so as to hold themselves apart from being responsible for their rapicious acts is another motivation | And all of this done with the well promoted effort toward "market globalization" |
What we really need now, in order to begin to correct this, is for corporations to be held accountable as global citizens themselves | They ought to be entered into the United Nations as distinct entities and their citizens should be required to register as aliens in whatever land-based nations wherein they reside | I'm not sure how to accomplish this, mind you, but it would be a start |
First posted at rondak.org weblog 2 nov 2002 ¶ 00:04
corporate nations & their citizens | Perhaps one thing that ain't exactly clear, when considering the idea of economic treason is that those who would commit such crimes, while nominally citizens of some land-based nation, aren't the least bit interested in the sanctity nor sovereign authority of that nation |
Lacking any clear way of recognizing who are ersatz citizens to land-based nations (such as passports or other identifiers) it is by the actions and consistent behaviors of the corporate nationalists which must be used to ferret these interlopers out |
To be sure, some folks may have genuine beliefs that they are only citizens by their landed-nation birthright | Others, more canny, cling to flags of convenience when in reality they pledge loyalty to the nations who support them, and whose aims they attempt to pursue |
The irony here is that, particularly in the United States, corporate nation politicos have increasingly taken over the polity of the people | Pledging fealty (as spoken by their actions) to more fluid nations like ENRON, General Electric, Capitol Cities, and the like, these individuals (Phil Gramm, fer instance) have pushed their own ideological/national agendae at the expense of the safety and security of the US of A | The costs of this are only now surfacing, in the guise of corporate greed |
Greed, indeed, was a factor, but not the only one | Plundering the conquered nation's treasures ("privatizing" for instance) was ~ and continues to be ~ considered fair game for the foreign agents hiding behind Old Glory | Rewriting the laws of the nation ~ as was done during the Newt Gingrich led Contract On America period in the 1990s ~ so as to hold themselves apart from being responsible for their rapicious acts is another motivation | And all of this done with the well promoted effort toward "market globalization" |
What we really need now, in order to begin to correct this, is for corporations to be held accountable as global citizens themselves | They ought to be entered into the United Nations as distinct entities and their citizens should be required to register as aliens in whatever land-based nations wherein they reside | I'm not sure how to accomplish this, mind you, but it would be a start |
First posted at rondak.org weblog 2 nov 2002 ¶ 00:04
