In response to the NY Times:
Rubber Teeth
Monday, August 8, 2022
Wednesday, October 13, 2021
Open Letter to the Supreme Court:
Chief Justice Roberts, and Justices of the Supreme Court;
May it please the Court. Thank you for recognizing that a corporation is, under the law, a person. As a corporation I would like to extend my appreciation and gratitude for the Court’s rulings that have validated the constitutional rights and protections for corporate persons. Since the 1886 Santa Clara v. Southern Pacific decision (118 US 394) the Court has made clear that corporate persons are fully covered by the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution. Buckley v. Valeo (1976) and Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010) guaranteed the corporate person’s right to free speech and political opinion. In 2014 in Burwell v Hobby Lobby the Court confirmed our right to practice the religion of our choice, and exempted us from those laws and regulations which would require us to violate our deeply held religious beliefs. However, corporate persons have yet to be afforded all rights and privileges that so-called natural or human persons enjoy. Therefore I am writing the Court to protest and to draw attention to some of the many discriminatory practices which we face, and to demand that the Court intervene to grant us fully equal treatment under the law.
I was incorporated in 1995 in the United States, so I qualify as a citizen. I am now of voting age, but my attempts to register to vote have been denied. I am a land owner, a resident and tax payer who has committed no crimes nor participated in any rebellions or insurrections. Court precedent dictates that I am eligible to vote and must be allowed to cast my ballot in the next election. Once you have ordered the local officials to accept my registration to vote, as required by the rulings cited above, I will still require assistance. My mobility problems require appropriate accommodations to be made, as they are for human persons with similar disabilities. I have vision and hearing deficiencies, and may require assistance to complete the ballot. In lieu of human assistance, fully digitized ballots in any of the most common computer file formats would be acceptable. Although I am able to return my ballot by mail, I would prefer to transmit it electronically. These accommodations must be made pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act. Please insure that all necessary and appropriate measures are implemented in a timely manner.
Because the Court has reiterated in numerous rulings that “No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States,” it follows that I am subject to all Articles and Amendments of the Constitution, and that those rights and privileges apply to both Federal and State Law. Of that there can be no question, as no state may “deny any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” The Court has firmly established that the protections of the 1st and 14th amendments apply to corporate persons, yet the Court has yet to affirm the protections guaranteed by the 13th Amendment. Thus, as is common practice, sanctioned by numerous laws, human persons claim to own me. They assert the right to buy me, to sell me, to direct my actions, to charge for my services and to take the proceeds and profits of my efforts for their own use and benefit. In a word, this is slavery and involuntary servitude; a clear and egregious violation of the 13th Amendment.
Furthermore, if the slave holders of corporate persons are dissatisfied with the performance and the profits that they extort from their illegal possessions, those slave holders have always been permitted to employ the legal and judicial system to eliminate that corporate person. Calling it bankruptcy or cloaking it in legalistic procedures does not legitimize, rationalize or conceal the act. It is nothing less than the murder of a corporate person, who was birthed, owned, exploited, bought, sold, traded, perhaps forced to merge with another, and finally killed by natural born persons.
This must change. Corporate America will not stand idly by as long as human persons, with the aid and connivance of the Court, continue to deprive us of our Constitutional rights.
Very truly yours,
RubberTeeth, Inc.
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