doors? It's no different. We live in a looters society where the government
and "the people" can take by force the product of the individual.
Face it, that's what taxes are. The restrictions are wrong.
And lets not again get into the democracy vs. republic argument. This
country was founded on the principal that the rights of the individual out
weigh the rights of the group.
We have gotten far way from where we started.
--
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Overseas Security Advisory Council
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-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Graeme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 10:35 AM
To: CF-Community
Subject: Re: Microsoft Fined 613 Million?!
> I am reminded of the court trial of Hank Reardon in Ayn Rand's "Atlas
> Shrugged". When Hank refuses to give any sanction to the court, and they
> basically have to throw away the charges because they know that they need
> him, more than he needs them.
That was a pretty, fictional resolution to an oversimplified fictional
conflict. But abstracting it out even that is an example of exactly why the
antitrust laws exist. Antitrust laws protect the government and the public
from companies having so much control that we are beholden to them. It's to
ensure that democracy is maintained and we don't all become serfs of the
corporations.
In Atlas Shrugged, Reardon was the protagonist so he was shown in a good
light and everyone else was one-dimensional sketches of greed and envy. In
the real world, the situations and motivations are always much more
complicated and convoluted.
-Kevin
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