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["John D'hondt" <dhondt@eircom.net>]

And I concur 100 % but what to do about it? Can anything be done to change 
the patenting laws? I have even dreamed about perpetrating some gmo myself. 
Duplicate the evil company's work so that at least they could no longer 
prove patent infringement of farmers and so to make them loose most of their 
income. The legal aspects of this are a bit beyond me.
Any other crazy ideas out there that might make a differtence?
john

> 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
>
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