shadow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > r> Aren't cops people?
>In this context, no - they're govt agents. You're mythologizing gov't so much, you actually view it as composed of nonhumans. > r> How do you figure, when it's about OFF DUTY & RETIRED officers? It's > r> about their personal use of guns, not the job. >Their only qualification is they are or were govt agents. But that could be enough to get such a measure enacted. In the 1980s I also thought up a way to get the NYC transit system privatized -- by giving it away to its current employees. I figured they might have enough political clout to achieve it, if it was combined with similar giveaways of other municipal assets. Looks like I anticipated the informal type of privatiz'n that occurred when the USSR dissolved. Bounty? Rely, Iris!, Robert in the Bronx _______________________________________________ Libnw mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] List info and subscriber options: http://immosys.com/mailman/listinfo/libnw Archives: http://immosys.com/mailman//pipermail/libnw
