From: Steve Schear <schear@lvdi.net>
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 10:45:09 +0800
To: cypherpunks@ssz.com
Subject: Re: wilkenrules.html
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 At 10:41 AM -0800 12/14/1997, geeman@best.com wrote:
>This entire issue speaks to whether we neeed government or not.  The power
>of the judiciary is part and parcel of the power of Government, and in many
>cases -this is an excellent example- is all that stands between The
>Oligarchy and Freedom.
>
>Imagine if there _were_ no government per-se, and it was the Disney, or
>Westinghouse, or GE, or whoever the fuck, corporate security forces taking
>action on their own against FRB.

Yes, you might have a situation similar to that in Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash.

--Steve