This bill is the same as the “Right to Farm” law in PA, where Factory Farms are deemed to be “normal agricultural activities” that local laws may not prohibit. The state legislatures are captives of corporate masters (which is to say we are governed by corporate states). Self-governance at the local level has been usurped. “Municipal corporations” are, by well-settled tyranny, mere administrative appendages of the state legislatures, with no autonomy or sovereignty of their own (this is a topic for a future discussion), while the minority of the opulent hiding behind private for-profit corporations enjoy limited liability, corporate constitutional privileges, the preemption of the Commerce Clause over local regulations of commerce, and the superiority of the Rights of Property over the Rights of People (for instance the right to self-governance).

These “Right of Corporations to Engage in Agriculture” laws never mention corporatization of agriculture, and instead refer to factory farming blandly as “farming.” Such illegitimate laws protect the privileges of opulent minorities to hide behind the fortress of the corporate form and immunize them from “nuisance suits” (attempts by citizens to self govern the communities where they live).

Such laws usurp the sovereignty of the People and bestow sovereignty on corporations. Corporate charters thus become institutionally akin to titles of nobility.

If the people affected by the decisions being made for their communities are not the ones making the decisions, there is no local democracy; there is no community self-governance. And if you don’t have democracy where you live, then where on earth do you have it?

This is not an agricultural problem. It’s not even a “corporate” problem. It’s a problem of rights-denial. It’s a problem of oppression in every community. It’s about the fact that municipalities are colonies of the corporate state.

- Posted by BenGPrice@aol.com, CELDF