The Republic of Heaven

Melancholy Man wrote:

lvfire wrote:Ive read that if you walk up to the white house and ask to speak to the pres, you get a 3 day psych work up at Bethesda for your troubles.

And if you forget to call Number One "Mr. President", you get shouted at.

And I've read that if you walk up to the White House, you don't get the chance to ask to speak to the president!

eloquent wrote:In order for anarchy to work we'd need to shed about 90% of the population. Proximity to other humans is what would destabalise true anarchy (ie everyone living their own lives, completely unnaffected by other people).

At least 90%, certainly - all the rapacious malcontents would have to go.

Is it in the Netherlands, where they have that anarchistic state; but even that is beginning to falter, as more and more rules are introduced and the place is overrun by drug dealers.

No, I don't think humans are capable of anarchy, there will always be a lowest denominator is society who will disrupt the situation with their own greed and megalomania.

Max wrote:Is it in the Netherlands, where they have that anarchistic state; but even that is beginning to falter, as more and more rules are introduced and the place is overrun by drug dealers.

Centre of Amsterdam. But it's more the fact that the police are busting them that means it's being shut down.

Enitharmon wrote:

Melancholy Man wrote:

lvfire wrote:Ive read that if you walk up to the white house and ask to speak to the pres, you get a 3 day psych work up at Bethesda for your troubles.

And if you forget to call Number One "Mr. President", you get shouted at.

And I've read that if you walk up to the White House, you don't get the chance to ask to speak to the president!

Its funny to think that less than a hundred years ago the pres used to walk by himself to a local hotel in the evening and have a few drinks. It became a bother though when people began to want to talk to him about politics, this by the way is where the term "lobbyist" comes from.

Its funny to think that less than a hundred years ago the pres used to walk by himself to a local hotel in the evening and have a few drinks. It became a bother though when people began to want to talk to him about politics,

Did the assassination of three unprotected prezzydants in less than 40 years not have something to do with it?

this by the way is where the term "lobbyist" comes from.

Good titbit of infomation.

If anyone tried that on 43, I can see him preforming a 'killigore kick' to get away.[/quote]

I think most of that came around after 'ole honest abe was assisinated. Even right through that war you could walk into the white house and ask to speak to the pres.

lvfire wrote:I think most of that came around after 'ole honest abe was assisinated. Even right through that war you could walk into the white house and ask to speak to the pres.

The line from Blackadder Goes Forth: "The most ill-advized comment since Abe Lincoln said 'I'm sick of hanging around the house all day. Let's go and take in a play'."


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