I read with horror the opinion of UW Madison law professor Howard Schweber, as he continued to defend the power and glory of Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce. He seems to think their size and economic strength is not a threat to our system of laws, meant to protect the rights of we the people, by tilting the scales of justice to their advantage.
Epic Systems decision to turn away business’s who are members of WMC is not a “threat to free expression,” but a stand against corrupting our legal system. Members can join Epic and show their concern for the laws that protect their viability and valuable contribution to the nation’s economic health, or turn to WMC and gain unimaginable freedom from liability. And that’s what we’re talking about, the ability to be socially untouchable, with laws that make restitution impossible. The end game is to free business from state and community responsibility.
Since buying legislators through lobbying efforts is an unpredictable game to play, corporate American has now focused all their attention to judges, the ones who really have the final word on the issues they care most about. Helping elect legislators and Justices by buying elections through moneyed interests may be wrong, but Epic didn’t make this move over politics, they did it for the sake of law.
So Prof. Schweber is wrong when he says Epic Systems is “pointing an economic gun at the heads of small business,” because he forgets that we all have to make choices, and no one has taken the freedom away from business’s that choose to follow their own moral compass.
Epic Systems decision to turn away business’s who are members of WMC is not a “threat to free expression,” but a stand against corrupting our legal system. Members can join Epic and show their concern for the laws that protect their viability and valuable contribution to the nation’s economic health, or turn to WMC and gain unimaginable freedom from liability. And that’s what we’re talking about, the ability to be socially untouchable, with laws that make restitution impossible. The end game is to free business from state and community responsibility.
Since buying legislators through lobbying efforts is an unpredictable game to play, corporate American has now focused all their attention to judges, the ones who really have the final word on the issues they care most about. Helping elect legislators and Justices by buying elections through moneyed interests may be wrong, but Epic didn’t make this move over politics, they did it for the sake of law.
So Prof. Schweber is wrong when he says Epic Systems is “pointing an economic gun at the heads of small business,” because he forgets that we all have to make choices, and no one has taken the freedom away from business’s that choose to follow their own moral compass.
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