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[Michael Winslow Czeiszperger <michael AT czeiszperger.org>]

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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Some try to achieve immortality by performing grand deeds or the  
accumulation of
great wealth. On the whole I prefer to achieve immortality by not  
dying. -- Pratchett
        -- michael at czeiszperger dot org, Chapel Hill, NC