Cobol - Re: "Right to bear arms" (was: OT Science versus religion: Is compromise

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Re: "Right to bear arms" (was: OT Science versus religion: Is compromise

Howard Brazee

2005-01-06, 8:55 pm

On 6-Jan-2005, Peter Lacey <lacey@mb.sympatico.ca> wrote:

> Did you ever read Robert Heinlein's "The moon is a harsh mistress"? At
> one point his hero proposes a branch of government whose sole purpose is
> to cancel laws! Might be something in the idea!

Frank Herbert had a universe where there was a Bureau of Sabotage. Because
law-making got so efficient they actually created a bureau whose sole function
was to throw monkey wrenches into the works of governing.

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