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To: semper_libertas
As usual, the socialist's have a feudalist solution to the "problem of the Commons"-
designate parts of it as "sovereign lands".

Vaguely germane historical note:
First(?) US treaty on Grand Banks fishing:

The Paris Peace Treaty of September 3, 1783
"In the name of the most holy and undivided Trinity. ...
Article 3:
It is agreed that the people of the United States shall continue to enjoy unmolested the right to take fish of every kind on the Grand Bank and on all the other banks of Newfoundland, also in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and at all other places in the sea, where the inhabitants of both countries used at any time heretofore to fish. And also that the inhabitants of the United States shall have liberty to take fish of every kind on such part of the coast of Newfoundland as British fishermen shall use, (but not to dry or cure the same on that island) and also on the coasts, bays and creeks of all other of his Brittanic Majesty's dominions in America; and that the American fishermen shall have liberty to dry and cure fish in any of the unsettled bays, harbors, and creeks of Nova Scotia, Magdalen Islands, and Labrador, so long as the same shall remain unsettled, but so soon as the same or either of them shall be settled, it shall not be lawful for the said fishermen to dry or cure fish at such settlement without a previous agreement for that purpose with the inhabitants, proprietors, or possessors of the ground. "

123 posted on 02/18/2002 8:05:22 AM PST by mrsmith
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To: mrsmith
"As usual, the socialist's have a feudalist solution to the "problem of the Commons"- "

Socialists can only ever have solutions that advance socialism. Otherwise we have no need for them...

To them the achievement of socialism is far more important than actually solving any other problems. Lack of socialism is the only problem they address.

181 posted on 02/18/2002 12:44:15 PM PST by semper_libertas
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