On Oct 27, 2008, at 8:03 PM, Lance A. Brown wrote: > Andrew Crystall said the following on 10/27/2008 8:40 PM: >> On 27 Oct 2008 at 18:52, Lance A. Brown wrote: >> >>> >>> William T Goodall said the following on 10/27/2008 7:23 AM: >>>> Their could be highly efficient and competitive private militias >>>> instead of the inefficient government monopoly paid for by taking >>>> the >>>> money of people who don't want to pay for it. >>> You mean like Blackwater? >> >> Try the local Mafia. > > As if I'd like to turn over our national defense to either group. > > This conversation reminds me of the situation in Neil Stephenson's > "Snow > Crash".
It reminds *me* of a certain Monty Python sketch .. "How many tanks you got, Colonel? Wouldn't want anything to *happen* to them, would we?" :) _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
