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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (23875)	11/1/2007 3:33:52 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

'Most serious'? Out of the entire library of new rights? While that would be a question I'd like answered, it wasn't the one I asked. Which is most serious out of the two potential problems mentioned in my post, the legal person declaration or the rights and privileges which companies have? The reason why I ask is to focus the discussion. If you say that the problem certain rights and privileges and then I argue against them but you turn around and say "its wrong, companies aren't legal persons", and then when I respond to the legal person point, you go back to the specific rights, we won't be getting anywhere.

To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (23875)	11/1/2007 3:35:23 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

'Most serious'? Out of the entire library of new rights? Hard to say... possibly the extension of the right against self-incrimination in criminal legal proceedings OK, put IBM, GE, Intel, or Enron on the stand and have them testify... People get put on the stand, people have a right not to incriminate themselves. Whether or not its a good idea what would a corporate right not to incriminate itself even mean? Can you think of an actual legal case where the application of such a right was definitive?