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[Lionel Peterson]

On May 5, 2009, at 4:51 PM, nate at portents.com wrote:

>>> churchill [?] was right when he said democracy is the worst form of
>>> government except for all the others,
>>
>> Possibly.  While I'd rather have slow-growing colon cancer than a  
>> cancer
>> that rapidly eats my brain or liver, I'd rather have no cancer at  
>> all.
>
> I think it is possible to make existing republics/democracies better  
> than
> they are, though the task isn't easy.  The whole power/corruption  
> issue is
> truly a difficult one.
>
> For instance, I was surprised to learn recently in the film Food, Inc.
> that Monsanto has used it's GM seed patents and money and power to  
> hire
> private investigators to watch over and investigate and sue small  
> farmers
> and business owners who are not using Monsanto products, who are using
> non-GM seeds, and who are using or selling seed-reclamation  
> equipment (so
> they can plant next year's non-GM seed crop without having to buy new
> seeds but instead use seeds from last year's crop, how farming used  
> to be
> done), and sue those people out of business for violations such as
> intellectual property rights, patent infringement, and seed piracy.   
> For
> *seed reclamation*!

If the problem is as you describe it, then any half-competent  
ambulance chaser should be able to litigate and prevail for the little  
guy. That they don't makes me think it is more complex.

Lionel