Ever wonder about the history and current state of our fundamental rights and the public commons? Read Noam Chomsky. "Destroying the Commons: On Shredding the Magna Carta." Over more than seven centuries he examines the Magna Carta Charter of Liberties and Charter of the Forest and how these documents have been ignored to the detriment of the common person and a sustainable environment. http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/07/23