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- Newsgroups: seattle.general
- Path: sparky!uunet!nwnexus!Celestial.COM!bill
- From: bill@Celestial.COM (Bill Campbell)
- Subject: Re: Freedom, Social Responsibility, Individual Responsibility
- Organization: Celestial Software, Mercer Island, WA
- Distribution: seattle
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 18:08:12 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.180812.28678@Celestial.COM>
- References: <BznJx9.JG3@agora.rain.com> <4154@phred.UUCP>
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- In <4154@phred.UUCP> harryb@phred.UUCP (harry barnett) writes:
-
- ......
- :What we really need are laws with which it is possible make it
- :personally VERY expensive for the assholes who enact such crap.
- :Entangling them in legal proceedings only enables them now to tap the
- :bottomless pit of taxpayer funds to defend themselves. I mean make it
- :*PERSONALLY* very expensive for them. Maybe put a substantial amount
- :of grief into their lives. This might make them less willing to impose
- :it on others.
-
- Perhaps something akin to a proposal Robert Heinlein made in
- ``Moon is a Harsh Mistress''. It was something to the effect
- that all politicians have a small explosive device surgically
- implanted in their head and if enough constituants push a button
- -- it blows their head off.
-
- Bill
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