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- Path: sparky!uunet!nwnexus!ole!rwing!pat
- From: pat@rwing.UUCP (Pat Myrto)
- Newsgroups: seattle.general
- Subject: Re: Freedom, Social Responsibility, Individual Responsibility
- Message-ID: <1847@rwing.UUCP>
- Date: 25 Dec 92 07:10:31 GMT
- References: <BznJx9.JG3@agora.rain.com> <4154@phred.UUCP> <1992Dec24.180812.28678@Celestial.COM>
- Distribution: seattle
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- In article <1992Dec24.180812.28678@Celestial.COM> bill@Celestial.COM (Bill Campbell) writes:
- >In <4154@phred.UUCP> harryb@phred.UUCP (harry barnett) writes:
- >> ...
- > ...
- >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.
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- Hah! That would raise their eyebrows a bit - get their attention, albiet
- for a very short time. Mebbie if it were designed so it would start
- buzzing at increasing pitches when it is within a few thousand buttons
- of going bang... wanna see a politician get some silly laws repealed
- in record time? Say in 5 minutes... :-)
-
- --
- pat@rwing.uucp (Pat Myrto), Seattle, WA
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