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Creepy News: Buying History


Apparently, a Carlyle group founder just bought a 700 year old copy of the Magna Carta.

Yes, the Magna Carta.

I guess he wants to burn it, so he can install his New World Order buddies in the soon-to-be black helicopter government of the apocalypse.

Just kidding. About the burning part, that is, the rest is for real.


Sean-Paul Kelley December 21, 2007 - 2:59pm
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Good that he's keeping it in the National Archives, though.

Although the slant is hilarious.

He feared a foreigner might buy it. Well, it's actually a British document; a foreigner *did* buy it.

"The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential."

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Escher Sketch December 21, 2007 - 3:11pm
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What was the Magna Carta, and are its contents relevant to us to

The Big Question: What was the Magna Carta, and are its contents relevant to us today?

Tina December 21, 2007 - 3:21pm
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I've always been a big fan of Habeus, you know?

“Is not our first thought to go on the road? The road is our source, our vault of treasures, our wealth. Only on the road does the ‘traveller’ feel like himself, at home.”
Ryszard Kapuscinski

Sean-Paul Kelley December 21, 2007 - 3:37pm
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Your Rights, that's all

Before the Magna Carta, only the King (sovereign) had rights, and the King's rights were absolute.

Even to this day, in England, you can't sue the crown, because the Crown's (The Queen & Her Government), is sovereign -- that is above all.

The Magna Carta is the foundation to the US Consitiution, becuase the Magna Carta is your foundation to any rights.

Otherwise you are a vassel of the Crown (Vassel = Property = Slave).

Synoia December 21, 2007 - 6:12pm
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They'll soon claim copyright over usage

Personally I'm worn out with the saturation losses people's rights and concerns have taken in America over the last few years. And those are only a "pedal to the metal" acceleration from the continuous losses dating back to Saint Reagan. My attitude is that these Carlyle Group type lords will have copyright extended to 1000 years and claim ownership of all uses and derivatives of the Magna Carta, thereby formally giving rights to only the wealthy, rather than the informal feudal society we currently have.

Harry Reid and Chuck Schumer will likely lead the call to extend the copyright term length to cover the Magna Carta.

Amos Anan December 21, 2007 - 3:25pm
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Don't worry

... you'll only lose the rights you try to exercise. Don't be a problem and it will out work. You'll see.

ww December 21, 2007 - 4:02pm
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I have no problem with the guy buying it

and i think it's nice that it's staying here.

Seeing as how the Patriot Act has turned the Bill of rights to toilet paper, we might as well have some document that King George hasn't f*cked with...yet.

Doug Richardson December 21, 2007 - 6:24pm
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