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| | Now Corporations Claim The "Right To Lie" |
 | | If people have the constitutionally protected right to say, "The check is in the mail," or, "That looks great on you," then, Nike's reasoning goes, a corporation should have the same right to say whatever they want in their corporate PR campaigns. |
 | | And lawyers for Nike are preparing to claim before the Supreme Court that, as a "person," this multinational corporation has a constitutional free-speech right to deceive. |
 | | People of all political persuasions who are concerned about democracy and human rights are encouraging other humans to contact the ACLU (125 Broad Street, 18th Floor, New York, NY 10004) and ask them to join Kasky in asserting that only living, breathing humans have human rights. |
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