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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs
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To: TimF who wrote (23884)11/1/2007 4:30:46 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Read Replies (1) of 71588
 
" You can't literally put IBM on the stand. You can only put a person on the stand."

Sure you can.

Like I said: corporations are legally regarded as 'natural persons with infinite life'.

Every time a corporate officer (who is properly authorized by the corporation to act in their behalf, as say, legal counsel, etc.) signs an official government form or filing on behalf of the corporation that is what is happening.

"That person has the legal right not to incriminate himself."

Correct. (So do corporations. That's what I've been saying: for the purposes of the legal system they are 'persons'... with all the rights of persons.)

" Please give an example of what a corporate right not to incriminate would mean,"

If that legal right did not exist for them, then the corporation would legally be proscribed from not disclosing (to the authorities who were investigating alleged criminal acts) such information when officially asked.

For example --- let me just pull one out of the air here --- if a corporation made some product that they *knew* for a fact killed people... then, if asked that question in an official investigation, they would not have the right to refuse to answer, or to refuse to disclose that information.
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