Mortal Engines

Of course, purely opinion, the following discourse concerns hypothetical amendments to better portray how corporations fit in the American social structure:

It is my opinion that corporations should be treated like countries rather than people.

Corporate Stathood vs. Corporate personhood 

These mortal engines, multi-national corporations and other entities that fall under this umbrella whom also have the ability to serve many global interests at the sametime and share no national affiliation with only one shared goal of expansion of their businesses and proliferation of their products or services.  The greatest strategic and tactical advantage they have over countries and governments is to circumvent laws by moving assets (data at use, data at rest, and data in transit) to other countries making them essentially above the law and yet they are considered a “person”. 

Our ruling class failed on an International level to create International legislation that would govern a global space such as the Internet to prevent the global exploitation and extortion of the human race. These entities were able to capitalize on this fact in a globally exploitative manner, blindsiding the International community by knowingly utilizing disparate International locations (foreign data centers) to circumvent data collection, data storage, privacy, and research laws and illegally share, analyze, and disseminate information (global organized crime syndicate or "The New Dystopian Reality"?).

International laws are necessary to govern an International space to prevent entities which have the capability to over-reach International boundaries from collecting storing and researching/experimenting with data in overseas location; thusly, circumventing the legal limitations set forth by governments and preventing them from executing feasible regulation and enforcement for the protection of their people. 

These behemoth... have greater land mass than many countries, have better technological capabilities than many countries which, to me, can be directly translated into military prowess in the digital era (have you seen google's quantum d*** its waaaayyyyy bigger than China's), and have a greater GDP than many countries with international affiliations, yet corporate personhood allows them to share the same rights as American Citizens? (Why are my thoughts in Delaware or 14th amendment amendment...?) 

Corporate Statehood and Why

Knowing that many of the “big” corporations maintain monopolies in certain industry would you as the U.S. government add to their monopolization and “global power” by contracting with them possibly giving an international entity direct access into our defensive and offensive systems (*cough microsoft jedi contract).  Data collections the name of game and ummm... hmmm... This is tantamount to saying "hey non-descript foreign entity you can have unprecedented access to our defensive and offensive infrastructural data.  Its ok though we trust you because you’re a “corporation” and not a “country”".  I state again, many of these corporations have the land mass larger than many countries spread out internationally, larger gross annum, and better cyber offensive capabilities so why are they not considered as such in comparison?

They have become so intermeshed with the U.S. we can’t afford to lose them; however, they can afford to lose us. More explicitly, multi-national corporations have become our lungs, our eyes, our heart, and our brain.  Are we to trust these entities which have ties with foreign-bodies who have conflicting global interests and have proven time and time again they do not have the American people’s best interest in mind? 

Course of Action: 

• Military industrial complex (Establishing a baseline/current level of reliance on 3rd parties for critical systems and technical infrastructure) 

• Current Geo-political climate of Governments and Corporations also clients of multi-national corporations 

• Current level of saturation with the American populace and the global populace 
  

Taking these steps could help to clarify what, if its not too late, the possible steps necessary to prevent a silent coup based on reliance of critical infrastructure owned and maintained by one or a group of entities external to the U.S. government.  This is especially important as we “temporarily” push our entire society on to the Internet to “stop” the spread of a “virus”. We as mankind are at a critical juncture in history being that we now are hanging from a thread, a single point of failure for the entirety of our now “virtual” society.  This definitely is not an extinction level event (the amish would survive); however, the probability of societal collapse only increases with the dependence on the Internet and the platforms built atop of our current electrical infrastructure. 

Also, corporate personhood creates a loophole so if a corporate entity does get caught no one person goes to prison. The crime becomes diffused across the face of a multi-national corporation and “they” are given a slap on the wrist known as a “fine”.  Often times this “fine” is placed back in the government’s pocket rather than rightfully given to the peoples effected by the negligence on the part of the entities. An example would be the telecommunication's scandal where the big 4 telecommunication's companies, Sprint, Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile knowingly non-consensually sold geolocation information of American citizens and the proposed fine was only $200 million dollars by the FCC.

A quick comparison AT&T posted $56 billion in one quarter so their share of the fine was like peeing on an elephant.  Have you ever pee’d on an elephant?  Hint: It doesn’t bother the elephant.  Umm… also it is clearly states matters of this nature are to be handled by the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice so why was Ajit Pai allowed to give his buddies another golden h******...(alittle dated but still *rimshot) but that’s another story entirely...I digress why wasn’t that money given to the people whose information was knowingly illegally sold and more specifically who wanted the information and who were they tracking??? #Cybercrimealert (***Can you come up with a better name for a company that’s alittttttttttle more discrete than “Satellite Tracking of People LLC.”)    

To sum it up why aren’t the CEO’s, the board of directors, and other organizational leadership within these entities protected by corporate personhood held accountable (prison time and I'm not talking house arrest in a million dollar mansion “prison time”, I'm talking Shawshank Redemption don’t drop the soap prison time “either get busy living or get busy dying”) for the negligence, criminal and nefarious acts "knowingly" and “unknowingly” committed against the American people by the organizations which they “lead”.  Don’t drop the soap ;)  

Sincerely,

-Aaron X.