This is what Major Variola (ret) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said about "corporate vs. state, TD's education" on 25 Mar 2004 at 9:16
> Get this through your head: a corporation can't initiate force against > you. You may not like their product, practices, or price, but no one > is coercing you at gunpoint. > Maybe in the good ol' USA, but apparently not so elsewhere. The following quote is from a CBC radio show, "Dispatches", about 3/4 down the page at http://www.cbc.ca/dispatches/thisseason.html ===== Start quote ===== "In the Congo,...a mining company can pay its taxes and fees to the local warlord, knowing full well that the money will be used to arm guerillas and kill more people. All perfectly legal. All perfectly immoral." That's a passage from the new book, "Making A Killing: How And Why Corporations Use Armed Force To Do Business." Canadian author Madelaine Drohan has examined the corporate use of violence and private militias down through the years, and concludes, "you can't trust corporations to wield armed force." While the cases she documents are all in Africa, in our interview she reminds us that Canada was opened up by British fur companies operating on the same principle. ===== End quote ===== The RealAudio transcript is at http://www.cbc.ca/dispatches/audio/031022_drohan.rm -- -- -- -- Bob Jonkman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
