Politeness can win more arguments even if we believe to be treated unjustly.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/10/20 Mark Janssen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dreamingforward@gmail.com">dreamingforward@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Sandwichman <<a href="mailto:lumpoflabor@gmail.com">lumpoflabor@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
</div><div class="im">> What an incredibly odd argument to encounter on a P2P list concerned with<br>
> reclaiming the commons! No one "owned" the commons in England, either. The<br>
> common people had RIGHTS, guaranteed by the Charter of the Forest, the<br>
> companion document to the Magna Carta. The enclosures of the commons usurped<br>
> those traditional and legally ratified rights.<br>
><br>
> "The law locks up the man or woman. Who steals the goose from off the<br>
> common. But leaves the greater villain loose. Who steals the common from off<br>
> the goose."<br>
><br>
</div><div class="im">> To say that the aboriginal people of the Western Hemisphere didn't "own" the<br>
> land is as relevant as saying they didn't read English or worship Jesus<br>
> Christ as their savior. Europeans stole the land by imposing their own<br>
> peculiar property regime, along with the metaphysics that viewed such<br>
> peculiarity as both natural and universal.<br>
<br>
</div>Exactly, thank you.<br>
<br>
Unfortunately, I don't have time to respond more either, but Natalie's<br>
points about bringing in the Western narrative (called "science") as a<br>
way to justify the spriritual loss are meaningless. �Sorry, fuck you.<br>
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mark<br>
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Sincerely yours, </pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap"> Apostolis Xekoukoulotakis</pre></span><br>