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Piercing the
Corporate Veil
The previous article reported Comments are appreciated. had already established a United
how one researcher was using a Christopher Stephen, of States was inconsequential to
Freedom of Information Act baum those traitors in Congress.
(FOIA) request to compel gov-
ernment (and especially the IRS) My first comment is that this Corporations are legal fic-
to precisely identify itself. How article conveys important in- tions. That is , they do not exist
government will answer that re- sights into the constitutionalists except in the minds of men. By
quest remains to be seen. The growing appreciation for the itself, a corporation cannot think,
strong probability is that, one strategy of denial. act, or even communicate with
way or another, government will To save space, Ive edited the natural men. Corporations have
not precisely identify itself or the article to remove text that strikes no weight or color and thus can-
IRS. me as unnecessary. not be seen, tasted or touched.
The next article essentially The original text is in brown. Because corporations are
describes another strategy to Ive inserted my own comments imaginary, they must have some
force government to identify it- (in blue) wherever I thought they real person (typically a lawyer) to
self. However rather than ask might clarify the authors opin- speak and act for them.
Who th H___ are you guys? ions.
and wait politely for an answer That, is, since corporations
this strategy simply denies that dont actually exist, they must be
various governmental entities represented by a flesh and
even exist. And based on that Re: Corporate Scam blood person who does exist.
denial, those government enti- Corporations were originally Such representation is man-
ties cannot proceed until they established for unlawful pur- dated by law in all American
prove they do exist. That proof poses primarily to escape per- courts.
will necessarily include enough sonal punishment for crimes by Some people suspect that
identification information that placing the blame on a fictional todays courts only recognize ar-
constitutionalists will be able to organization responsible to no tificial entities like corporations
precisly ID the the masked ma- one. and trusts. This suspicion ties
rauders weve come to accept as Piercing the Corporate Veil closely to the theory that all-up-
government. is a legal term which signifies the per-case names (like ALFRED)
This article opens with an process where a court removes identify artificial entities while
email I recently received: the protection provided to indi- capitalized names (Alfred) sig-
vidual members of a corporation nify natural, flesh and blood per-
Al for criminal activity, and makes sons.
Some folks down in the those members responsible for Whether the courts actually
southern States seem to be hav- their own actions. presume that all parties to a
ing extraordinary success by fil- The United States govern- lawsuit to be artificial entities
ing a simple affidavit. The par- ment jumped on the corporate remains questionable. However,
allel statue for Texas is found in bandwagon in the 1870s by de- there is little doubt that most of
the Texas rules of Court, Civil claring itself a separate entity the government entities that ap-
Procedure, Rule #52. Below is from Constitutional government. pear to sue us in court are cor-
what was sent me. The fact that the Constitution porations.