Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 20:28:02 -0600
Subject: Piracy on the high e's


hugh bone wrote:

T.S. Eliot is supposed to have  said that immature writers imitate; 
mature writers steal...
Takes chutzpah to go for Shakespeare, O'Neil and Homer in
five lines.
___________________________

Yes, you are so right.  Such an act, even as parody, merits severe
condemnation.  You didn't even mention the greater atrocity, the
complete acknowledged lifting of a entire phrase from that old
reactionary aesthete, Andre Breton, in the previous section.

"For the crimes committed in sixteen counties, the condemned should be
beaten by a soluble fish until dead."

I saw on the news today that the Margaret Mitchell estate has requested
in court that planned publication cease on a new novel which purports to
retell of the story of "Gone with the Wind" from a black slave's point
of view.

On a lighter not, Zack Exley is currently being sued for having the
audacity to have an "Onion-style" website that mimicked CNN and dared to
satirize that august body of professional journalism.  He has now had to
shut down the site because of court order.

http://www.whosealphabet.com

Previously, the disrespectful hooligan Zack dared to critique our heroic
bipartisan president George W. Bush; and even went so far as to portray
him as an unintelligent businessman with a cocaine problem.  To which
George W., when told about this atrocious attack, responded: "There
ought to be limits to freedom."

To which I must now acknowledge is right on target.  Once, I foolishly,
on this very site, attempted to attack the god-given notion of
intellectual property rights.  I hereby come before you all now to
repent in virtual sackcloth and ashes.

The president is right.  Such proto-socialist notions as free speech,
equality, social justice, and democracy serve only to critique our
sacred order of property rights and the market economy and thereby serve
to undermine the rule of law which must at all costs be preserved.  Free
speech must be curtailed in order to protect individual liberty. The
corporation is the true individual and we mere flesh and blood mortals
stand merely in their shadow. 

Luckily, the methodology now exists to right this previous wrong; this
barbarian looting.  I would propose the following.  As we all know, the
technology already exists for complete government surveillance of the
internet.  Also, we have experimented with house arrest of dangerous
criminals to monitor their activity using electronic devices.

Therefore, it would be possible to create a new use tax.  Citizens would
be required to wear monitoring devices at all times that would record
their conversations for any speech governed by the nation's intellectual
property laws.  In a similar fashion, the use of similar speech on the
internet would be also subject to the same tax.

At the end of each month, the information would be wired to the
governing agency and a use tax assessed on each individual consumer.

The true beauty of this approach is that it would allow the current
harsh income tax to be repealed.  Thus, the real producers, the creative
men of ability, like Bill Gates, would no longer need to be brutally
penalized by an unjust social system that refused to acknowledge their
superhuman efforts to make the petty lives of slugs like us infinitely
better.

It is time we recognized that speech is not socialism, but property, and
it truly belongs only to those intellectual giants upon whose shoulders
we stand as mere pygmies.

So, I would be more than happy to give Shakespeare, O'Neill, Homer
Simpson and Andre Breton exactly what they deserve.  Just tell me where
to send my check.

I also apologize to everyone for the low-witted robber mentality I have
exhibited in the past, stealing the speech that belonged to these great
dead white males and I hereby acknowledge that like the air I breathe I
can only rent the speech I use.  

Free speech without payment is mere theft. It looses mere anarchy upon
the world (oops - apologies to WBY)

I don't have a creative bone in my body! I am forever in your debt.






Previously, the disrespectful hooligan Zack dared to critique our heroic
bipartisan president George W. Bush and even went so far as to portray
him as an unintelligent businessman with a cocaine problem.  To which
George W. when told about this atrocious attack went on to say: "There
ought to be limits to freedom."

Which I must now acknowledge is right on target.  Once, I foolishly on
this very site attempted to attack the god-given notion of intellectual
property right.  I hereby come before you all to repent in virtual
sackcloth and ashes.

The president is right.  Such proto-socialist notions as free speech,
equality, social justice and democracy serve only to critique our sacred
order of property rights and the market economy and thereby serve to
undermine the rule of law which must at all costs be preserved.  Free
speech must be curtailed in order to protect individual liberty.

Luckily, the methodology now exists to right this wrong.  I would
propose the following.  As we all know the technology already exists for
complete government surveillance of the internet.  Also, we have
experimented with house arrest of dangerous criminals to monitor their
activity using electronic devices.

Therefore, it would be possible to create a new use tax.  Citizens would
be required to wear monitoring devices at all times which would record
their conversations for any speech governed by intellectual property
laws.  In a similar fashion, the use of similar speech on the internet
would be also subject to the same tax.

At the end of each month, the information would be wired to the
governing agency and a use tax assessed on each individual consumer.

The true beauty of this approach is that it would allow the harsh income
tax is be repealed.  Thus, the real producers, the creative men of
ability, like Bill Gates would no longer need to be brutally penalized
by an unjust social system that refused to acknowledge their superhuman
efforts to make the petty lives of slugs like us infinitely more
bearable.

It is time we recognized that speech is not socialism, but property and
it belongs those intellectual upon whose shoulders we are mere pygmies.

So, I would be more than happy to give Shakespeare, O'Neill, Homer
Simpson and Andre Breton exactly what they deserve.  Just tell me where
to send the check.

I also apologize to everyone for the low-witted robber mentality I
exhibited in stealing the speech that belonged to them and I hereby
acknowledge that like the air I breath I can only rent the speech I
used.  

Free speech without payment is mere theft.