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Five Candidates for the Corporate Death Penalty
One of the most famous signs to come out of Occupy Wall Street stated simply:
“I will believe corporations are people when Texas executes one.” That was sort of a joke.
But in fact, for the benefit of real live human beings, some corporations ought to be executed.
My guess is that most of the occupiers at Wall Street would be in favor of the corporate death penalty.
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Who is Occupying Wall Street and DC?
Adara Scarlet, for one.
Born and raised in Denver, the 27-year old headed east once she heard about the occupy movement.
Her mother died at age 40 of cervical cancer. Adara was 10 years old.
“She was one of those anti-vaccine kind of people,” Scarlet says of her mom. “She thought you could cure everything through holistic means. She tried to meditate her cancer away. It didn’t work. She could have been treated. She had many opportunities to be treated. But she waited until it was too late. She decided to do the chemo ten days before her death. It was too late.”
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