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appal_jack

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7. A phrase I've used since the nineties is "Freedom for whom?"

Reply to Faryn Balyncd (Reply #2)

Sat Dec 6, 2014, 11:56 AM

Dec 2014

These agreements privilege the freedom of investors to extract capital, power, and rents from the people and landscape as a whole. They greatly limit the freedom of people to organize and agitate for fair wages, environmental quality, and a sound public infrastructure.

To paraphrase George Carlin, it's an elite club of freedom, and we ain't in it.

k&r - excellent OP Faryn Balyncd,

-app

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