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Minister of the Interior Jack Straw is believed to be personally directing operations to unmask the shadowy figure behind the dark forces' claim that:

The proposal of any new order or regulation of commerce which comes from corporations ought always to be listened to with great precaution, and ought never to be adopted till after having been long examined, not only with the most scrupulous, but also the most suspicious attention.

It comes from an order of men whose interest is never exactly the same with that of the public, who have generally an interest to deceive and even to oppress the public, and who accordingly have on many occasions, both deceived and oppressed it.

But since he's got so much on his plate, what with declaring effective politics to be "terrorism" and all, we'll save him the trouble: it was Adam Smith, concluding Book One of The Wealth of Nations. That was the book that practically founded capitalism.

 
Updated
6 Dec 1999