Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!john
From: john@geac.UUCP (John Henshaw)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: lotus chairman makes 26 million
Message-ID: <2692@geac.UUCP>
Date: 3 May 88 19:03:25 GMT
Article-I.D.: geac.2692
Posted: Tue May  3 15:03:25 1988
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Reply-To: john@geac.UUCP (John Henshaw)
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In article <9360@cisunx.UUCP> mike@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Mike Elliot) writes:
>Since you asked...Robin hood is stealing from the Sheriff who stole from
>the people, albeit through legal (and unethical) means.

Robin Hood *stole* from the Sheriff: Robin Hood broke the law which in
this case was stealing.

The Sheriff did NOT steal from the people: the Sheriff did not break the
law.

You introduce a concept I'd call "legal theft"? Is this really possible?
Perhaps you've just invented a new oxymoron!

-john-
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John Henshaw,			(mnetor, yunexus, utgpu !geac!john)
Geac Computers Ltd.		If we don't pay for education now, are we
Markham, Ontario, Canada, eh?	going to be able to pay for ignorance later?