Underestimating long-term consequences of cryptoanarchy

[Steve Schear]

At 10:26 AM 5/9/2003 -0700, Tim May wrote:
>On Friday, May 9, 2003, at 12:04  AM, Bill Frantz wrote:
>
>>At 6:44 PM -0700 5/7/03, Tim May wrote:
>>>On Wednesday, May 7, 2003, at 01:01  PM, Bill Frantz wrote:
>>>Even when the population was a fraction of what it is today, this was a 
>>>problem building railroads. Of course, though the books on free 
>>>enterprise are light on mentioning this, the private railroads got the 
>>>land rights by coercion, threats, burning out settlers, bribing state 
>>>officials, etc. "Blazing Saddles" was not far off the mark.

A more serious treatment of this is found in a very good, but overlooked, 
film "The Claim,"  http://us.imdb.com/Details?0218378, which has lately 
been on premium cable.

steve