CDR: Re: why should it be trusted?

At 11:36 PM -0700 on 10/22/00, Nathan Saper wrote:

Then what is the purpose of our government?

To confiscate taxes by force, of course. ;-). So long, Nathan, and thanks for all the red herring... <Plonk!> Cheers, RAH -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'