[pp.int.general] where is the manifesto?

[Reinier Bakels]

>    On the logic of you reasoning: property rights become property rights
>    because of their properties (characteristics), not because legislators
>    explicitly decide to do so. So it would not help if legislators simply 
> say
>    "this is not a property right". The essence is that one can not take 
> away a
>    right from someone that represents a (monetary) value
>
> This "principle" is strangling democracy, as it means that the
> megacorporations need only corrupt one government, getting it to
> privitize something or create a monopoly, to set up a form of
> oppression that no one can undo.  Even if the public gets angry and
> elects a government inclined to undo the damage, this "principle"
> makes that impossible.
>
> Thus, this "principle" becomes evil when extended to cover such cases.
> We the people must trim it back.  Whatever organizations stand in the
> way, we must change them or overcome them.  Unjust copyright is only
> a part of the problem that makes this necessary.
>
You are quite right that thiscan be a major problem. The solution imho is to 
solve the problem at the front door, not at the back door. yes, I am aware 
that there is a process called "rent-seeking" (in the specific sense of the 
term) which is the process of (usually big) corporations influencing 
politics to adopts statutues that are favourable to them. That process must 
be stopped - and a simmple way to do is imho to put counterweight on the 
balance, AND THE  PP IS IDEALLY SUITED TO DO THAT. Repairing dreadful 
legislation afterwards is (much more) cumbersome.

reinier