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I own the sun
Sunday, September 9, 2012 | 10:53 PM | 0 Dancing Queen and Prince Says
A woman from Spain's soggy region of Galicia, Angeles Duran, said Friday she had registered the star at a local notary public as being her property. "There was no snag, I backed my claim legally, I am not stupid, I know the law. I did it but anyone else could have done it, it simply occurred to me first." That is a quote directly from her. She want's to also tax everyone on the planet for use of the Sun, with 50% going to Spain's government, 20% to Spain's pension plan, 10% to research, 10% to end world hunger and the remaining 10% for herself... She plans on giving most of the money to Spain? When EVERYONE uses the Sun? What's wrong with this picture? Personally I think she is both crazy and stupid, though she argues against that. I know that there is a law saying no country can own the moon, but apparently the Sun is fair game? I don't think so, honey! A) The Sun supports all of us, not just Spain, so get over yourself. B) Owning the Sun is just as ridiculous as the guy that claimed the moon and the rest of the planets. and C) What the F-word are you thinking?!How selfish can you be to use most of the so-called taxes on this ridiculous venture to forward only your own country? When all of us use it? Please...Angeles Duran, never breed. It's for everyone's good. In what she’s admitted to be nothing short of an oddball scheme to save the flailing failing Spanish economy (hey, at least they’re not quite Portugal, Greece, or Ireland), 49-year-old Angeles Duran has quite officially claimed she legally owns the Sun after being issued a document proclaiming her the sole owner by a Spanish notary. Now she plans to rescue her country’s economy by taxing “everyone on the planet” for basking in her UV-rays. (Let’s just thank she beat the US government to it, they could probably pull it off and would hardly be above it.) According to Helium online, the document “described ‘Sol’ (the sun’s proper name) as ‘a star of spectral type G2, located in the center of the solar system, located at an average distance from Earth of about 149,600,000 kilometers.’ Duran, who maintains she ‘backed [her] claim legally,’ is ‘not stupid,’ and knows the law, stated: “I did it but anyone else could have done it, it simply occurred to me first.” This because, she says, international law concerning ownership of celestial bodies applies only to states and makes no reference to individuals. Which points out the problem in her loophole: that she was issued her papers by the Spanish state assumes that Spain, or any nation for that matter, ever had the power to grant ownership over of such a celestial body (and implicitly had the ability to control it)… Not just an abstract problem, such a situation calls into question the relative absurdity that is owning any sort property – what is it about a piece of paper scribbled on by the right hand that enacts the quasi-magical binding contractual power of ownership over property, be it earthly, heavenly, or even of another man with the same emotions and mental faculties? Duran, ever the hard-taxing land grabber, is hardly looking for an answer, stating: “If there is an idea for how to generate income and improve the economy and people’s well being, why not do it?” A surprisingly worthy question, but couldn't such an argument be made for such things as extreme as slavery (after all, far easier than the Earth or sun to control are certainly the thoughts and actions of another man)– especially considering she means ‘one people’s well being’ at the very literal expense of many other’s? feed mind solved Labels: EVENT, something to know |