>Please feel free to consider the meaning of "without government" in the context of your fight against corporates and government itself. You would not need to "abolish government" to reduce access to the judicial and enforcement systems on which you so successfully relied.

Who exactly is talking about that? I'm talking about overbearing regulation and the bureaucracies which spawn and grow from their creation. The lessening of the power of the State via decreased regulatory control and greatly reduced bureaucracies would increase the effectiveness of the judiciary as there would be dramatically less code for the judges to be familiar with.

>Some would say that underfunding is already making it harder and harder. Seems to me that further cost-cutting would not result in power handed back to "citizens" but to those with the deepest pockets- meaning multinational corporates and the bankers who have shown how competently they can look after the ranch.

Underfunding of the judiciary, law enforcement and public works is a direct result of over funding social programs and bloated bureaucracies.

>This may not be your intention but it is your example (again) and you have to be more explicit if you don't want people to guess. I have not done you the disservice of concluding that you want to have your cake and eat it too.

I hope I've been more clear. btw : Did you ever look up the California Coastal Commission? Any opinion?

>Finally and in context you might want to review recent events wrt swine flu vaccine. The US produces only 20% of the vaccines it needs including swine flu vaccine. The rest is made mostly in Europe. If things turn ugly, as of this week it is suggested that the US might not get access to vaccines it has ordered because political pressure will see the vials retained closer to home for the benefit of local citizens. In response the US Department of Health and Human Services announced that it would spend almost $900M to buy supplies of key ingredients for swine flu vaccine. Big pharma seems content to keep making most of it in Europe. QED.

I'll admit a lack of knowledge on this topic as I regard the entire thing as the latest in a long line of overblown media driven hype and as such I'm devoting as much time to it as I did to West Nile, SARS, Avian and the cyclical Ebola outbreaks. At least the virus hype mongers are not trying to impose an economy killing cap-and-vaccinate scheme upon the world in order to save Gaia from the ravages of the virus humanus. And where the hell is PETA? Why is no one looking out for the plight of the poor H1N1? With all this talk of eradication, shouldn't we be listing it as an endangered species soon?

That being said, my first question would be why is "big pharma" making the vaccine in Europe instead of the US? Might it have anything to do with the US having the highest corporate tax rate in the world?