10 Corporations That Got Away With MurderBy Jake Anderson However, while a hero like Edward Snowden can reveal to us the surveillance state and dragnet data collection enabled by the Patriot Act, one person alone cant stop its successor, the USA FREEDOM Act, from privatizing mass data collection and outsourcing the job to the governments Big Data partners. Corporate rule over this country is more disturbing than ever, but its important to never gloss over the crimes of the past. Corporations can and do get away with murder and have been doing so for a while. Their dubious personhood status which bestows upon them seemingly limitless powers of citizenship has in many cases immunized them from the same laws and regulations real humans face. As a result, their crimes are swept under the rug as though they were merely teenage transgressions. But watchful eyes and minds can collect and archive these crimes with the same ubiquity as the surveillance cameras on our street corners. Without further ado, here are 10 corporations that got away with murder: Dutch West India Company Granted a charter to monopolize the Atlantic slave trade, the Dutch West India Company transported African slaves to sugar and cotton plantations in the Americas. On average, 15 percent of slaves died from suffocation, starvation, violence, and disease during the voyages. Accusations of the mass-murderof buffalo to starve out Native Americans also possiblyplay into the Kansas Pacific Railroads decision tosystematicslaughter of the buffalo. US Colonel Richard Dodge famously said in 1867, Every buffalo dead is an Indian gone. Additionally, Monsanto may very well be causing irreversible kidney damage and canceron large-scale populations with theherbicide glyphosate marketed as Roundup. The city of San Diego is even suing Monsanto for polluting its bay with cancer-causingPCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls). Jake Anderson writes for TheAntiMedia.org, where this article first appeared. Tune in! The Anti-Media radio show airs Monday through Friday @ 11pm Eastern/8pm Pacific. Image credit: Jonathan McIntosh. 