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  • From: Michael Winslow Czeiszperger <michael AT czeiszperger.org>
  • To: internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [internetworkers] Defeating the thought police
  • Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 22:16:06 -0400

It strikes me as obvious that the reason why the public has such problems with the police is the local government has a monopoly on law enforcement. If the city simply allowed competition from any number of security companies, then you could pick and chose the one that fit your needs. This way the people who actually use the police will pay for the full cost of the services. And the same goes for the fire department.

It wouldn't be a hard change to make. Instead of calling 911 in an emergency, you could just call your favorite security company, say a subsidiary of Halliburton, who would come and do the same things the cops would, but for a fee. If some homeless person was breaking into your car, for example, they would just come and haul the bum away and stick 'em in their private jail pending trial. And there'd be a range of services, like for an added charge police would patrol past your house regularly.

And the same goes for the court system. Why should the American Bar Association have total control over who's a lawyer? Why not let the free market decide who's a good lawyer? If anyone who can string two lines of code together can call themselves a programmer, why should I have to hire a lawyer with a fancy bar certification just to draw up a will?

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-- michael at czeiszperger dot org, Chapel Hill, NC





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