From: Forrest Bishop (forrestb@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Fri Sep 01 2000 - 11:10:56 MDT
Paul Hughes wrote:
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> I don't know about you guys, but the recent trends among Corporate
> America to strengthen Intellectual Property Laws beyond the DMCA has got
> me very concerned and agitated. I'm all for seeing creators of
> intellectual property be compensated fairly for their work, but recent
> moves within our legal system are really starting to disturb me. I
> think the story "The Right to Read" by Stallman at:
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> http://www.gnu.ai.mit.edu/philosophy/right-to-read.html
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> paints a very compelling reason to limit the protections of current
> intellectual property.
Also,
"Is Intellectual Property Legitimate?"
by Stephan Kinsella ( South Texas College of Law )
May 5, 2000
http://www.mises.org/journals/scholar/kinsella6%2EPDF
While you are there, study everything at mises.org, beginning
with "Human Action" by L.von Mises
also check out antiwar.com for reasons for and methods of
rolling back state/corporate) power.
>Is capitalism the problem, or is what we have so
> perturbed by regulation that it can't truly be called capitalism?
Capitalism, or free markets, is the solution. The problems stem from
Marxism's 'followers', such as The Council on Foreign Relations, which
'gave' us the Federal Reserve System, graduated income tax (sponsored
by the predecessors of the CFR), public education, Social Security, gold
confiscation, the Cold War, the other debt/welfare programs, and other
state crimes too numerous to list here.
Note that all Presidential candidates, the interlocking directorates of
the Fortune 500, the Federal Reserve Board members, etc. are all ipso facto
'required' to be members of the CFR.
The story of Standard Oil (now called Exxon-Mobil-Texaco-Phillips
66-Chevron-Arco-etc.) provides a prototype of the anti-competitive,
anti-free market stance of our part-time owners.
> Either way, their is definitely a growing unrest as to what many people
> see as Corporate Power gone out of control. The recent scuffle in
> Seattle is only the beginning of more civil unrest over the issue of
> Corporate Profits vs. Individual Liberties.
> I have always tried to maintain freemarket principles, but when I see
> corporations gaining this much power over individual lives, I begin to
> doubt those beliefs and my appreciation of capitalism as usual. Now,
> here is a scary question - is capitalism now at odds with the spirit of
> a free market, and more importantly individual liberty? For those with
> strong reactions to this question, I am urging you to respond as
> intelligently and rationally as you can.
>
> Paul Hughes
It is socialism in all its guises that is at odds with free markets,
rationality and freedom. Its most spectacular failures in the FSU,
such as the malinvestments of the Cold War and the collapse of FSU
Social Security programs are instructive, as we will soon be
experiencing this in the US.
The word "Capitalism" has undergone a morph of meanings much as has the word
"Liberalism". "Free markets" may have to be used these days, although this
is also being co-opted by NWO/WTO/UN socialists.
"Inside every socialist is a little dictator."
Incidentally, the greatest 'crack-up boom' (sponsored by the Federal
Reserve System) in human history is now well into the bust phase,
very similar to the 1920's-1930's, albeit with many new twists.
We may see some interesting financial spectaculars this month, certainly
coming to a winter near you.
-- Forrest Bishop Manager, Interworld Productions, LLC Chairman, Institute of Atomic-Scale Engineering http://www.iase.cc
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