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<DIV>I was replying to the argument sent to me re “homesteading”-trying to add
some ironic humor.</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=lumpoflabor@gmail.com
href="mailto:lumpoflabor@gmail.com">Sandwichman</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, October 19, 2011 12:45 PM</DIV>
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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [P2P-F] Libertarians</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV class=gmail_quote>What an incredibly odd argument to encounter on a P2P
list concerned with reclaiming the commons! No one "owned" the commons in
England, either. The common people had RIGHTS, guaranteed by the Charter of the
Forest, the companion document to the Magna Carta. The enclosures of the commons
usurped those traditional and legally ratified rights. <BR><BR><SPAN
class=st>"The law locks up the man or woman. Who <EM>steals</EM> the
<EM>goose</EM> from off the <EM>common</EM>. But leaves the greater villain
loose. Who <EM>steals the common</EM> from off the
<EM>goose</EM></SPAN>."<BR><BR>May I recommend a couple of books by Peter
Linebaugh?:"The Magna Carta Manifesto: Liberties and Commons for All" and <SPAN
class=st>"The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, and the <EM>Atlantic</EM>
Working Class" </SPAN><BR><BR>To say that the aboriginal people of the Western
Hemisphere didn't "own" the land is as relevant as saying they didn't read
English or worship Jesus Christ as their savior. Europeans stole the land by
imposing their own peculiar property regime, along with the metaphysics that
viewed such peculiarity as both natural and universal.<BR><BR>On Tue, Oct 18,
2011 at 8:25 PM, Natalie Golovin <SPAN dir=ltr><<A
href="mailto:10natalie@cox.net">10natalie@cox.net</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR><BR>
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class=gmail_quote>The Europeans had better weapons. And since no one "owned"
all that available land, and many of the tribes were nomadic-What right (Re: a
previous mail) did the natives have to dominate it?<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>--
<BR>Sandwichman<BR>
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