Robert Naiman wrote: > So Brown wants to put the IMF in charge of regulation. Excellent. > Let's put the Mafia in charge of fighting crime and the Medellin > cartel in charge of reducing the flow of illegal drugs.
FWIW, that seems to be the origins of the state: a bunch of thugs collected protection money and then got enough power to have a near-monopoly of force -- and so could call themselves a government. -- Jim Devine / "Nobody told me there'd be days like these / Strange days indeed -- most peculiar, mama." -- JL. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
