Learning Stories
by
Mario deSantis
mariodesantis@hotmail.com
“I am a Canadian, free to speak without fear,
free to worship in my own way, free to stand for what I think right, free to
oppose what I believe wrong, and free to choose those who shall govern my
country.” - -The Rt. Hon. John Diefenbaker, Canadian Bill of Rights,
1960
“The whole judicial system is at issue, it's
worth more than one person.”--Serge Kujawa, Saskatchewan Crown
Prosecutor, 1991
“The system is not more worth than one person's
rights.”--Mario deSantis, 2002
Ensign Stories © Mario deSantis and Ensign
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We have been saying for a long time that the stock market is a
gambling casino and that our unrestrained Free Market Capitalism has
reached its unsustainable regime with the appointment of George Bush
Jr. to the Presidency by the Supreme Court of the United States.
We are going to understand little by little and in accordance to
our intelligence many of the problems of Free Market Capitalism. And
in doing so we are going to explain ideas as they prop up in our
imagination and without paying too much attention to their
congruence as we have reached the point where we must compare apples
with oranges to make some sense of the Free Market, a market which I
have defined as a conspiracy by the big corporations and fortunate
sons.
I have a sense of disbelief on how our business schools,
politicians and experts are all conjuring for a new world order
managed by technological advances as normally protected by 20 year
intellectual property rights, managed by supporting tax cuts as more
people are being marginalized, managed by supporting smaller
governments as corporations become bigger and steal from common
people, managed by supporting privatization as our democracies are
eroding, managed by the predictions of our institutionalized
economists as they try to sustain the ideology of the Free Market,
and above all, and yes, a new world order supported by the super
power of the push-button United States military machinery.
I am trying to put some ideas in writing so that I can follow
some more congruent thoughts later, but my point is that our
unrestrained Free Market Capitalism has reached its unsustainable
Big Bubble and this is why we are living in a state of secrecy, of
fear, of autocratic environment and this is why our freedom has been
taken over by the forces of the Free Market and this is why the Big
Bubble is being protected by the superpower of the United States
military machinery.
References
Pertinent articles in Ensign
Share and share alike? Mark Tran investigates 29 top Enron
executives, U.K. Guardian. Kenneth Lay, the Enron chairman, sold
Enron stock 350 times, almost daily, receiving $101.3m. It is not
known how much he or the others paid for their shares. In all Mr.
Lay sold 1.8m shares between early 1999 and July 2001, five months
before Enron filed for bankruptcy. Sometimes Mr Lay sold in amounts
as small as 500 shares, other times as many as 10,000. January 18,
2002 http://www.guardian.co.uk/enron/story/0,11337,635595,00.html
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