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.
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