[MD] Politics

[Platt Holden]

[Platt]:
> I would ask when has a corporation legally jailed and/or executed an
> individual
> who opposed it?
>  -Platt
> 
> Ron:
> They have their ways. They wouldn't just come right out and jail
> somebody
> They'd make up allegations frame the target, plant evidence, make an
> airtight case with high priced lawyers and bought judges and officials
> And viola' your gone baby.
> And if you're not a U.S. citizen forget about
> Habius Corpus. They don't need a reason. 

Who is gone? Gone where? Can you cite an actual case?

> You don't think corporations Invest
> in politics to forward their own agendas and profit margins? That's where
> the money is made. Both foreign and domestic. It happens at all levels I see
> it locally everyday in the business I work in. 

Would you be in favor of eliminating any contact between the government and
business? 

> The United states Gov. is a business as well as a governing system, 
> the well being of the nation hinges on foreign interests, competition
> on the global free market. You don't think this involves political
> control?

Not sure what "control" you are referring to. Levying of import taxes 
perhaps?

> By your interpretation this is moral correct? Survival of the fittest
> Winning even if it means stacking the deck in your favor. Intellectual
> Patterns triumphing over social. What's moral is what's best not what's
> right. Correct? This is Pirsigs highest moral standard for the intellectual
> Is more moral than the social. 

Not sure what you think is the difference between what's right what's best.
Is is not right for business to make a profit? 

> Hitler was one moral dude, an individual triumphing over social level
>  Patterns in the interests of better-ness for his nation and himself.

> Maybe he was Christ.
 
I guess you are being facetious.