X-Message-Number: 15982
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 16:48:19 -0800
From: Lee Corbin <>
Subject: People Belong to the Government, Not Vice-Versa

In Message #15979 John de Rivaz writes

>Those who have been reading the thread "compulsory
>post mortem dissection" on sci.cryonics and elsewhere
>will have seen many messages from pathologists, lawyers
>and their admirers saying that "you do not own your own
>body" according to law - the government does.

I sincerely hope that this fact (that in most nations
the government owns the bodies of the people) becomes
better known, because it is so obviously tyrannical.

But then, observant people already realize this.  You may
not put harmful chemicals into your body; when traveling,
you must strap your body into motor vehicles to protect it
[the state's property]; you may not even terminate the life
in the your body, only the state has the legal right to do
that.  If you are a motorcycle rider, you must wear a helmet
to protect the state's head from damage.  The government
owns your body and your soul---before birth, during life,
and after death---not you.  Written laws prove it.

Lee Corbin

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