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[Lionel Peterson]

On May 5, 2009, at 5:11 PM, "Jonathan C. Patschke" <jp at celestrion.net>  
wrote:

> On Tue, 5 May 2009, nate at portents.com wrote:
>
>> I think it is possible to make existing republics/democracies better
>> than they are, though the task isn't easy.
>
> Doing that requires buy-in from a sufficient number of voters, and
> tenacity and vigilance among those voters to hold their  
> "representatives"
> to task.  We've been there and done that.
>
>> and sue those people out of business for violations such as  
>> intellectual
>> property rights, patent infringement, and seed piracy.  For *seed
>> reclamation*!
>
> They go one better than that.  Monsanto's genetic modifications  
> include
> pigment markers, so they can identify the GM crops with a simple  
> nighttime
> flyover.  It's been a while since I read the specifics, but I  
> believe they
> fluoresce in the presence of UV light.
>
> If you're an organic (or "traditional") farmer, and your neighbor  
> has GM
> crops, there -will- be cross-pollination if your neighbor plants the  
> same
> type of plant, so the next year, your crops will express the marker
> pigment, and you will be sued by Monsanto.

Well, that's one opinion. It seems to rely on a threshold approaching  
zero (any flouresence equals violation, and no case is too small to  
persue).

>
>> We live in an age of the tyranny of the corporation, the  
>> corporation which
>> has it's teams of lawyers and lobbyists.
>
> Corporations which are, themselves, creations of government, which  
> gain
> their power through tax regulations and intellectual property  
> protections
> which are, again, creations of government.
>
>> I don't see how the founders of the countries the people of this  
>> planet
>> live in could have anticipated this scenario to any reasonable  
>> degree,
>> and I don't hold them accountable for the mess we're in.
>
> That largely went to hell when the ninth(?) circuit court proclaimed
> corporations to be "persons"[0].
>
>> Rather, I hold every single person on this planet collectively
>> responsible for improving our existing systems of government to  
>> scale to
>> the scope of these problems, myself included.  I just hope that we  
>> all
>> continue to work at it, and make things better together.
>
> I think the best thing people can do is to ignore some of the most
> egregious of laws--laws purely of obedience, rather than of preventing
> harm to others.  They can't arrest all of us.

No, but they can punish ALL of us, in the name of 'being fair".

Lionel