curmugeon | Outlaws....

They were part of the old west.. now it seems we are seeing a new paradigm where people are going to become outlaws as the result of the current corporate owned power structure. We have a prison industrial complex ready for this reality, we have laws being written in secret to create penalties for crimes you will not know you have committed until they haul you away for indefinite detention, all based on 'economic crimes' such as copyright violations, or some other 'crime' against 'intellectual property'. This is getting even more absurd, as companies are now using patents on natural biological processes as in medical research. Seems that some individuals have certain unique genetic traits that can be exploited by medical science to create remedies for certain diseases and/or defects. We have a whole new breed of scientist who search for these individuals, seek out the biological material that makes these people unique and special, then extracting the DNA, and patenting this. The individual does not get any benefit, yet the corporation now holds exclusive rights over that persons DNA. There are more ridiculous examples out there, but the bottom line is we will all be soon considered outlaws, for growing our own food, for speaking out against injustice, for even questioning authority. The era of thought crime is approaching fast. I guess I'll be proud of being an outlaw until such time I can crush these people and corporations under the heel of my boot. As we used to say in the 60's, Fuck the authorities, they don't represent us.

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