If WE do not stand up for ourselves NOW we may never be PERMITTED to again.

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/separate-church-corporate-from-state

THE PETITION TEXT:

The Constitution's 1st Amendment (The 1st Amendment in The Bill of Rights) declares our right to Free Speech and the Separation of Church and State. The principle driving this amendment is corruption of the people's right to express themselves with cultural institutions, such as the church, that have in the past, present, and will in the future dominate their ability to choose what the people want to do, and say what the people want to say. Corrupt Capitalism effectively robs people of the ability to express their will in elections and be represented by elected officials. If powerful authorities have power over people's lives, their families, cities, states, nations and government, just as the church did in Europe when the founding fathers separated these institutionalized authorities or the church from state in our Constitution, then we need to question the right of corporations to have such power.

Corporations today are institutions. They are authorities. They have power over our lives, media, and our government. The same principle that makes sense in the first amendment to the Constitution guarding against undo influence from the biggest and richest corporation in the world today as it was in the 1700's: the Catholic Church. Does it makes sense today, with respect to corporations, to let them dominate our lives and government? Consider the Inquisition that lasted 600 years and killed  and tortured millions of people and Corporate World Domination as parallels.

The issue here is not about religion or the "church" itself, but what kind of power it has as an institution or authority to corrupt, harm, or destroy the people or their government.

Nevertheless, today's religious institutions are even more varied and powerful and must be kept in check, but they share this privileged power and control that violates our freedom of expression, in terms of our personal identities, to our national identity and government, and today as citizens of the world, corporations are running things and are not in check. We have lost our way. We have lost the spirit and legal principle of separation of special interests and power elites over state that is implicit in the Separation of Church and State amendment to the Constitution.

Corrupt Capitalism is what Corporate America has become today. We need corporations to make computers and cars, but not to run our government or influence or dominate other country's governments and that is corruption in its worst form because people lose their freedom.

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  http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/separate-church-corporate-from-state

I know, it's long. But it is well thought out and well written. If WE do not stand up for ourselves NOW we may never be PERMITTED to again.