"ryanm" wrote in message
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The Supreme Court agreed to hear the Causbys' case. Congress had
declared the airways public, but if one's property really extended to the
heavens, then Congress's declaration could well have been an
unconstitutional "taking" of property without compensation. The Court
acknowledged that "it is ancient doctrine that common law ownership of
the
land extended to the periphery of the universe." But Justice Douglas had
no
patience for ancient doctrine. In a single paragraph, hundreds of years
of
property law were erased. As he wrote for the Court,

'[The] doctrine has no place in the modern world.

Does the right to earn a living with one's talents also have no place in
the modern world? If someone's talent is as a songwriter why should that be
different than that of a carpenter? A carpenter has the right to earn a
living with his talents & abilities - if you're a carpenter do I have the
right to keep you from your jobsite? Ryan, this is the same kind of issue -
maybe technically it's not "STEEEEEEEELING" as you put it, but to say that
is splitting hairs, anyway - the point is, it's preventing someone from
earning their living.

So let's go back to the carpenter analogy... you're a carpenter and I'm a
300-lb defensive lineman - you work five days a week, but all of a sudden
every Tuesday & Thursday I show up at your jobsite & stand in your way so
you can't get in. You move & I move with you, you try & run around me, but
I'm too fast - you can't push me over, I'm too big, and the frustrating
thing is you can't even have me arrested because I don't assault you in any
way... I don't hit you, grab you, or anything like that, I just stay in
your way no matter what you do. You're now losing 40% of your income. Ah,
who gives a ****, you make enough money anyway, right? You can get by on
60% of your former income, can't you? And your kids? Well, the spoiled
little *******s will just have to send themselves to college.

Now, there's no law against 'standing in someone's way', but if this were
to happen to you you'd probably be thinking: "maybe there oughta be".
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Neil Henderson
Progressive Rock
http://www.saqqararecords.com