-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
I'll agree with that, except in cases where the corporate client is being coerced by government (or other Mafia) into not buying some forms of controversial art. We'd see more controversial movies/plays/performance art on TV, for instance, if the government weren't helping us.
The coercion occurs at the govt/businessman interface and it does not concern the artist/businessman interface. If the artist refused to com promise, the businessman activities would be so lame that nobody would get interested in it. And it is about time that the business world regain power. I do not mean the big govt-sucking business but the millions of small business that get fleeced by the govt/big business affiliation.
JFA Accepting a grant is accepting stolen money. Only a government grant, or a grant from other thieves...
Restore an objective monetary standard such as gold!
I can see why you don't want the government telling us we have to use government-printed soft money, but why should they tell us we have to use "objective" money, whether gold, silver, or hempscript? Why should they be making those decisions for us at all? The free market can do a fine job of picking between competing hard, mushy, soft, and totally vaporous currencies, and encouraging or discouraging people from issueing them. Of course, if you believe in using government-funded courts to enforce your contracts, you're stuck with whatever subjective standards the government feels like using.
I think that you are taking things out of context a bit. A govt is a tool that *we* create in order to help run certains things. Among others, are the defence dept, the courts applying as objective as possibles laws and the issuing of money. But today's govt is a living blood thirsty entity that went loose on it's own... JFA -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2i iQEVAwUBMULKtciycyXFit0NAQF47gf9GTIlhde47TbZ3YRqKvCuQPiFZJvXsrgZ TZxuLQBP2HxW2vFnBQZiPdW2tWVmUMl2ZX6dblKX2S2yHK54+JhGSLIdSGRdsTyW iLnbu0b5LUT+bAcXOat7cR7JtoqoycbIbATsxLYi0W7U+9HImKWUhJmqsn8mD+Uo 6KmN4Z5TtWGdJ8MMXGncdAX9nhMZosilBfaAOUcm5vzLK2k0ehxNFvRusetuYGGW i+KXkIV9csnWgZ5qfbT1VluPb/v5LIjP6BRxNTTm3PlqIPW7qFyqKHF+eu7PhPK9 vBrMj+hBVpPCE/oJ0xAI79MpJyTvDCfIcwrQrNMEnPoCTpGgGogc/w== =nfLr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Public Key at http://w3.citenet.net/users/jf_avon Jean-Francois Avon <jf_avon@citenet.net> 2048 bits key ID:C58ADD0D 1996/03/01 fingerprint=52 96 45 E8 20 5A 8A 5E F8 7C C8 6F AE FE F8 91