Good morning.
"I am, in fact, very concerned about conservatives who believe that large unaccountable private institutions are somehow less of a threat to individual liberties than are public institutions, this after Enron."
Private institutions, large or small, do not coerce you into interacting with them. Public institutions usually require, under threat of some form of penalty, that we interact with them.
Michael Frazier
Good grief, where do you live - on a mountain top in Idaho?
I suppose my interaction with PEPCO (Potomac Electric Power Compay) is entirely voluntary and any time I choose I can decide to go without electricity. Likewise I can dispense with the services of Verizon. Can I dispense with interacting with the bill collector trying to collect a bill for a service I never purchased?
I suppose the coal miners in West Virginia who protested mining conditions did have the right to pack up and leave and seek employment elsewhere - as soon as they settled their debts with the company store and the company housing authority, etc.