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From: josh@topaz.ARPA (J Storrs Hall)
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Subject: Re: Meta-government: a New Approach!
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Date: Wed, 31-Dec-69 18:59:59 EST
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> sevener
> Let me suggest a brand-new, radical idea: how about allowing 
> "meta-governments" in the *same country*! Imagine how many problems
> with emigration and so forth this solves.  How would this system work?

Whoo!  I thought for a minute there that tim had independently invented
the concept of private protection agencies, among which the people
could choose freely.  

My faith in human nature was restored, however as tim revealed that 
all he had in mind was voting, that mass-opiate wherein the State
disguises its predations with a cloak of legitimacy.

--JoSH