[WEB4LIB] RE: HR 1846 (was Re: Blocking email, the complaint)

[Raymond Wood]

On 27 Jul 2001, at 13:05, Daniel Messer wrote:

> Does it bother anyone else that the United States government is
> starting to seem less and less "for the people" and more and more
> "for the corporations"? I really have my doubts to the sanity of my
> government anymore. It's become glaringly obvious over the last year
> or so that the government is going on a strict anti-individualistic
> streak. 

I think this is very much the case.  More and more, there is an issue 
of 'corporatism vs. democracy' arising.  Motivated by profit, it seems 
to actually be in the interests of multinational corporations to gain 
exemption, as much as possible, from democratically created 
national legislation - hence MAI and similar non-democratic 
initiatives.  

My $0.02,
Raymond

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