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To: techguerrilla who wrote (41007)	4/8/2000 2:19:00 AM
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A wakeup call to the electorate? That's precisely what I said and hope for. In what respect? Blatant abuse of monopoly power is to be respected? Surely your reference is to the monopoly held by our gradual expansionist liberals in play which have abused our interest. This gradual and slow decline that we have been experiencing in our freedom, liberty & justice IMO, is what desensitizes a large part of our electorate thereby suffering the consequences. Perhaps you may recall one of James Madison's letters that was written to Thomas Jefferson stating: "I believe there are more instances of abridgment of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations...." Maybe you and I differ on the "those in power" part. This is not a liberal vs. conservative/Democrat vs. Republican issue. I couldn't disagree more. The liberal vs. conservative battle is in great part, at the heart of the case. The abuses of Microsoft would be seen as abuses regardless of the nature of the administration in power. Microsoft's abuses are the most aggregious in American history. Are you suggesting also, that under a conservative (ie. business friendly/ consumer friendly) executive branch such as Reagan, Bush that they would allow a DOJ AG to prosecute (help the hands of competition) MSFT? Just hypothesize for a moment that if there were no government interference in the marketplace, how much more competitive the landscape would probably be forced to become. This "legal card" is only a easy way out for MSFT's competitors and holds captive a truely free marketplace. Thankfully (and unfortunately in some ways), MSFT has recently become aware of this being one of their "greater" threats and has/will launch a political offensive upon the true authors of this law suit. They will rue the day that this Pandora's box was unleashed. For that matter we all will.

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