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This is an EXCELLENT essay by a family farmer in Virginia who also wrote a book by the same title. It documents in spades how the "We're from the government and we're here to help you" permeates EVERY aspect of our lives. Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal JOEL SALATIN / Acres v.33, n.9, Sept 2003 1 Sep 03 Everything I want to do is illegal. As if a highly bureaucratic regulatory system was not already in place, 9/11 fueled renewed acceleration to eliminate freedom from the countryside. Every time a letter arrives in the mail from a federal or state agriculture department my heart jumps like I just got sent to the principal's office. And it doesn't stop with agriculture bureaucrats. It includes all sorts of government agencies, from zoning, to taxing, to food inspectors. These agencies are the ultimate extension of a disconnected, Greco-Roman, Western, egocentric, compartmentalized, reductionist, fragmented, linear thought process. Remainder of article here: http://www.mindfully.org/Farm/2003/Everything-Is-Illegal1esp03.htm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/attachments/20090804/fb8cd5ea/attachment.html _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
