Newspoem 23 May 1998

Plundered Ploughman
(Triple Anagram)

Under American law, corporations enjoy the rights of persons – free speech, private property, limits to searches, rights of accused persons, trial by jury, "due process," etc. The rights enumerated in the Bill of Rights and the 14th Amendment were originally designed to protect individuals against the government. Corporations – which have the further advantages of being more wealthy than individuals, and of being immortal – didn’t acquire these rights democratically or by legislation, but rather by decisions of an "activist" Supreme Court a century ago. Before then, corporations were taken to be limited and specific arrangements. Even so their power was suspect. Thomas Jefferson at the end of his life warned that a "GOVERNMENT OF AN ARISTOCRACY FOUNDED ON BANKING INSTITUTIONS AND MONEYED CORPORATIONS" would be "RIDING AND RULING OVER THE PLUNDERED PLOUGHMAN AND BEGGARED YEOMANRY." The triumph of the corporations – and the resulting corporate culture in which we live – is a 20th-century phenomenon, and it continues. The courts made corporations persons; the MAI will make them states.

-- C. G. Estabrook. "Asia, the World Economy, and Your Life." Octopus. 8 May 1998.

Sentence anagram: Analine

Thomas Jefferson at the end of his life warned that a "GOVERNMENT OF AN ARISTOCRACY FOUNDED ON BANKING INSTITUTIONS AND MONEYED CORPORATIONS" would be "RIDING AND RULING OVER THE PLUNDERED PLOUGHMAN AND BEGGARED YEOMANRY." Under American law, corporations enjoy the rights of persons – free speech, private property, limits to searches, rights of accused persons, trial by jury, "due process," etc. The courts made corporations persons; the MAI will make them states. Corporations – which have the further advantages of being more wealthy than individuals, and of being immortal – didn’t acquire these rights democratically or by legislation, but rather by decisions of an "activist" Supreme Court a century ago. Before then, corporations were taken to be limited and specific arrangements. The rights enumerated in the Bill of Rights and the 14th Amendment were originally designed to protect individuals against the government. Even so their power was suspect. The triumph of the corporations – and the resulting corporate culture in which we live – is a 20th-century phenomenon, and it continues.

Word anagram: Ananym

THE PLUNDERED PLOUGHMAN AND BEGGARED YEOMANRY.
Under,–, of, etc.;.– which have further of Before thenin were
Even so their was.– and the resulting in which we live, and it continues.
to protect corporations against individuals, and the government.
suspect corporate culture power
the Bill of Rights is the Supreme Court
private property, corporations enjoy the rights of persons
The courts made corporations persons –
the MAI searches
will make them American law states
Corporations didn’t acquire these rights democratically or by legislation, but rather decisions of an "activist" a century ago.
limits rights, and the 14th Amendment advantages of being accused
were originally designed to individuals more wealthy than 20th-century persons
"due process," a phenomenon
free speech The triumph of the corporations
trial by jury by being immortal
The rights enumerated, taken to be limited and specific arrangements.
Thomas Jefferson at the end of his life warned that a "GOVERNMENT OF AN ARISTOCRACY FOUNDED ON RULING" would be "RIDING BANKING INSTITUTIONS AND MONEYED CORPORATIONS"
–OVER, AND

Letter Anagram: Anagram

The Rill of Bights protects the Supremes in a vat of Brie. The rights enumerated—rule by banjo—divide us into men and rats.

Thomas Jefferson in rat fur: he warned of a hat and coat. The end of his life would be over and out for yeomanry. Rats sang “send in the clones.” The US is in the Ninth inning—of nine. More wealthy than a century ago, rich men have us by the ovaries. Money will make the raging rat henchmen men—democratically or by legislation. Porn was a 20th-century career. We read TV oracles. Car ads are our rights. We go at 14 mph.

Government doesn't have to be like this. Corporations riding workers. Aristocracy arrangements. “Due process,” curt free speech decisions, states, peons, sit-ins, the jury trial, scorpions, wine, gin, poisons, computers, persons, myths designed to limit the limited war reparations to Iraq. Tropes were founded on pacifist ideals that, by being nudged, didn't end up in the final draft of the constitution.

Act up. Create trouble. Mend a mind. Dine. Pinch. Cough. Dig a groovy coriander patch. Purport to butcher rat goons. Avenge the plundered laughman. Love will compete with competition. Free rats.