[MD] Fencing the Air

[david buchanan]

gav said to platt:
a slave is OWNED. that is why he isn't free.

dmb butts in:
Your point is reinforced by American history. The slave owners of the old 
South defended the practice on the basis of property rights. (And the 
bible.) Its kinda funny how people will defend oppressive ideas in the name 
of freedom. (Or defend individuality in a parrot-like manner.) This is when 
irony breaks out into full blown humor.

gav axed:
is the worker owned by his company? is the individual owned by his country?

dmb says:
the country is owned by the companies. they also, in effect, own the US 
Senate, the House the Presidency. Its a coin-operated government. These days 
it is not of, by or for the people. Mybe its always been a racket, but you 
should see the stats showing the profound increase in the number and 
influence of lobbists. Its gotton to the point where industries write the 
laws that "govern" them. It amazes me that anyone thinks this isn't 
profoundly anti-democratic. I mean, the free-market types over at the 
Heritage Foundation are not oblivious to this situation and yet persist in 
their defense of the that religion, um, I mean idea.

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