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Amen 100% to this. LL

On 1/9/2013 6:37 PM, Heenan Doherty wrote:

> Here is a note from our good mate Joel
> Salatin
> "...Perhaps no other violation of basic Americanism and personal autonomy
> could be more flagrant than the blatant trespass of patented, owned life
> form slaves promiscuously crossing fences and impregnating a neighbor's
> living beings. That these are plants and not people or animals makes no
> difference: fundamental human rights demand security in one's person and
> property within due process, that the neighbor's fist ends at my nose, that
> property is the expression of opportunity.
>
> Every district attorney in America is guilty of dereliction of duty by not
> prosecuting these life form owners of trespass. If their bull came onto my
> property, they would be liable. If their chickens scratched out my flower
> beds, they would be liable. If their partying interfered with my napping,
> they would be liable. But their beings may trespass, promiscuously and with
> impunity, conduct sexual orgies with my open-sourced and heritage-domained
> beings, and not only are they not liable; I must pay a fee for the
> privilege of being impregnated by their genetic studs.
>
> It's the most outrageous and evil, arrogant and tyrannical thinking
> possible, and the American judicial system, from
> courts to prosecutors to the sheriff's department, are complicit. If
> someone invented and patented a car part that
> jumped off their car in a parking lot and scratched my car parked in the
> adjoining space, the police would arrest that patent owner for trespass.
> And that's simply a machine, not life, not living beings.
>
> If basic common law jurisprudence dating back to the Ten Commandments, to
> the Magna Carta, were applied in this case, we wouldn't need labeling laws.
> We wouldn't need to seek redress at our expense. The reason for government
> is to encourage righteousness and discourage evil. Today's America has
> flipped this justification on its head and instead encourages evil and
> discourages righteousness. This is not big versus small, innovation versus
> traditionalism, or public versus private. This is as simple and basic as
> the notion that a neighbor who comes over and trashes my flower garden is
> wrong and should be punished.
>
> No amount of corporate posturing, free market cultism, libertarian (and you
> know I'm a libertarian) apologetics, or
> technology worship can justify a neighbor trashing my flower garden. It
> just ain't right. Folks, this ain't normal..."
>
> Joel Salatin
> Polyface Farm
> Swoope, VA
> 1/9/13