From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Date: Sun, 9 Jun 1996 05:25:19 +0800
To: Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: [NOISE] Buying whales with digicash Re: Anonymous stock trades.
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Bill Stewart writes:
> Oh, come on now, Perry - while Friedman has more sense than that,
> you've been around the Libertarian party long enough to know people
> who call themselves free-market environmentalists who contend that whales
> will be best protected if they're owned property,

Sure, but Dr. Phill Hallam-Baker, D.Phil., was contending that
Friedman said the free market solution was for people to voluntarily
stop buying whale meat -- he wasn't even contending that Friedman said
the whales should be owned. Dr. Phill Hallam-Baker, D.Phil., presented
a portrait of Friedman that is so totally out of line with even the
most fuzzy headed free market types that it is almost impossible to
believe that he said anything of the sort.

Perry