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" The law locks up both man and woman Who steals the goose from off the common, But lets the greater felon loose Who steals the common from the goose. "
Journal of United Labor - Page 477
by Knights of Labor - 1883
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A Free Mind: Ahmed Kathrada's Notebook from Robben Island

Ahmad M. Kathrada - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 156 pages
...has been accomplished if there is still something to be done) The law doth punish man or woman That steals the goose from off the common, But lets the greater felon loose, That steals the common from the goose. - Anon (18™ century - group areas act!!) Treason doth never...
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The Trouble with Music

Mathew Callahan - Music - 2005 - 276 pages
...law to break; This must be so but they endure Those who conspire to make the law. The law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common And geese will still a common lack Till they go and steal it back. —Anonymous 6 The suffering inflicted...
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Intellectual Property Rights: Critical Concepts in Law, Volume 5

David Vaver - Copyright - 2006 - 440 pages
...law to break; This must be so but they endure Those who conspire to make the law. The law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common And geese will still a common lack Till they go and steal it back. This poem is one of the pithiest...
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CODE: Collaborative Ownership and the Digital Economy

Rishab Ghosh - Social Science - 2006 - 370 pages
...law to break; This must be so but they endure Those who conspire to make the law. The law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common And geese will still a common lack Till they go and steal it back This poem (Anon 1821) is one of the...
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Suiting Themselves: How Corporations Drive the Global Agenda

Sharon Beder - Business & Economics - 2012 - 273 pages
...Power and Politics of the Hawke Era, p4. 5 From Public Service to Private Profit The Law doth punish man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common,...felon loose Who steals the common from the goose. 18TH CENTURY ANTI-ENCLOSURE SAYING 1 Privatization is not simply a change of ownership. It is a change...
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G.K. Chesterton: Thinking Backward, Looking Forward

Stephen R. L. Clark - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 274 pages
...mind. 11. Ibid., p. 72. 12. By contrast with later practice, emphasized in the verse, "You prosecute the man or woman / Who steals the goose from off the common, / But leave the larger felon loose / Who steals the common from the goose" (cited in What's Wrong with the...
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Bioethical and Evolutionary Approaches to Medicine and the Law

W. Noel Keyes - Bioethics - 2007 - 1234 pages
...wash away the soil of the earth; so thou destroy 'est the hope of man. Job 14: 18-19 The law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the...felon loose Who steals the common from the goose. Old English quatrain 4. ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER, 3rd millennium, Sept. 16, 1999, at Bus. 1. 5. KRUTCH,...
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The Jail Notebook and Other Writings

Bhagat Singh, Bhupendra Hooja - India - 2007 - 194 pages
...criminals were punished by hanging. " "The law convicts the man or woman Who steals the goose from of the Common, But lets the greater felon loose Who steals the Common from the goose." PAGE 46 Democracy Democracy is theoretically a system of political and legal equality. But in concrete...
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A Patented World?: Privatisation of Life and Knowledge

Ana Agostino, Glenn Ashton - Business & Economics - 2006 - 246 pages
...law to break; This must be so but they endure Those who conspire to make the law. The law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common And geese will still a common lack Till they go and steal it back. - Anonymous This poem is one of...
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