From: nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson)
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 94 11:48:10 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Voluntary Governments?
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   Date: Tue, 23 Aug 94 18:15:12 GMT
   From: jdd@aiki.demon.co.uk (Jim Dixon)

   I grew up in a small town of 5,000.  It had a city government.	The
   county government was in the same town.  No one denies that California
   has a government, I think.  And then there was the US government.  And
   we had city police, the sheriff's office, the Highway Patrol, and the
   FBI paid an occasional visit.

   So drop the word 'exclusive'.

The government still excludes non-governmental authorities from using
violence.

   In our high school we had a student government.  We had no prisons
   and no guns.

Then you were a club.  Or, you were a government whose rules were
enforced by other governments.

   area, and that control need not be effected with guns.

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