[MCN] Missoula-Community-News Digest, Vol 22, Issue 6

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>   1. 17th Century folk poem on privatization of public land
>      (Lance Olsen)
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> Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2017 08:41:40 -0700
> From: Lance Olsen <lance at wildrockies.org>
> To: Missoula-community-news at bigskynet.org
> Subject: [MCN] 17th Century folk poem on privatization of public land
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> The law locks up the man or woman
> Who steals the goose off the common
> But leaves the greater villain loose
> Who steals the common from the goose.
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> The law demands that we atone
> When we take things we do not own
> But leaves the lords and ladies fine
> Who takes things that are yours and mine.
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> The poor and wretched don't escape
> If they conspire the law to break;
> This must be so but they endure
> Those who conspire to make the law.
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> The law locks up the man or woman
> Who steals the goose from off the common
> And geese will still a common lack
> Till they go and steal it back.
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> "This 17th Century folk poem is one of the pithiest condemnations of 
> the English enclosure movement-the process of fencing off common land 
> and turning it into private property. In a few lines, the poem 
> manages to criticize double standards, expose the artificial and 
> controversial nature of property rights, and take a slap at the 
> legitimacy of state power. And it does it all with humor, without 
> jargon, and in rhyming couplets."
> -James Boyle, Duke Law School Professor
> http://www.onthecommons.org/magazine/%E2%80%9Cstealing-common-goose%E2%80%9D
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> "On the other hand, maybe when Malaysia's prime minister spoke about 
> transforming the country into a developed nation, he meant that it 
> really had to suffer through a deep real-estate recession, like those 
> experienced by the U.S. and the U.K."
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> Steven Bergman. "Thriving Malaysia Propels an Office-Tower Boom In 
> Its Biggest City,
> and You Know What Follows a Boom," Barron's, August 12, 1996.
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> "Bank panics invariably reveal the poor quality of lending
> that accompanied the preceding boom."
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> Edward Chancellor
> "Panic passes but the causes remain"
> Financial Times, October 14 2008
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> "The tendency for success to breed complacency and recklessness is
> as ingrained in financial markets as it is in any other walk of life."
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> "Banks: Barbarians at the vault."
> The Economist, May 15, 2008
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