In america the various mafias get plently of competition, mostly by means short of actual warfare. Coke is a free market except for police intervention, and the local church is most certainly not a monopoly.
At 09:05 AM 10/4/98 -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
Coke is a free-market? That's a laugh. I suggest you study the history of the Crips and related gangs, or the international Coke distributors.
Except for police intervention, anyone is free to buy coke from dealers affiliated with the Crips, affiliated with the Bloods, or affiliated with any one of several smaller providers of such services. Generally competition between these groups mostly resembles the competition between Visa and Mastercard with shoot outs being the exception rather than the rule. Shootouts are bad for business. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG Z3KdZnJI+f5vF118VFL0MXvnc/vax1L5aOSwtuLC 4wEeXVOQ8uu5x6lqxMjR/dzZelSR7LUosYe37IJQM ----------------------------------------------------- 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