-- At 06:47 PM 4/12/2001 -0700, Tim May wrote:
I know of two general classes of agents who do this:
-- the Mafia
-- the government
It is totally unfair to compare mafia type organizations to the government. I have known some people who were engaged in a mafia type business and they were decent people. Their charges were quite low, vastly lower than the government, and they only provided their services to people who gained some advantage from it, in suppression of crime, or suppression of competition, or both. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG 3o0SiqPz6FNH373wCEHXr7FEUqFkWM7E8jqE5ZJC 4OKNJzO2eJIMDXGjdfCT48jvjPk0JNGMsg+QmKRhE ----------------------------------------------------- We have the right to defend ourselves and our property, because of the kind of animals that we are. True law derives from this right, not from the arbitrary power of the omnipotent state. http://www.jim.com/jamesd/ James A. Donald