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From: Frank Krygowski <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net>
Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech
Subject: Re: Helmet efficacy test
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2025 09:53:19 -0400
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On 4/18/2025 9:15 AM, AMuzi wrote:
> On 4/17/2025 9:23 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
>> On 4/17/2025 10:08 PM, AMuzi wrote:
>>> On 4/17/2025 9:01 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Oh, and "speech" in the form of millionaire or corporate campaign 
>>>> contributions is an abomination.
>>>
>>> How so?
>>> If I have an individual right to free speech (and I absolutely do), 
>>> then why may my right be curtailed when I join with others of like mind?
>>>
>>> It's a long standing feature of common law (well before USA) that 
>>> corporations are fictitious persons, entitled to rights of their 
>>> composite individuals when they act as one.
>>
>> Common law or not, I think the idea of a corporation being a "person" 
>> is nuts. But even if one accepts their "personhood," they should be 
>> limited to the amount of speech that _one_ person can produce.
>>
>> And "speech" measured in dollars is an abomination.
>>
>>
> 
> Apply the same logic to  unions, fraternal organizations and political 
> parties and then think it over.

I'd be willing to apply it to those.

-- 
- Frank Krygowski