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To: gg cox who wrote (15956)	3/25/2007 12:23:22 PM
From: foundation	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 218310

re: People have to be saved from themselves. ---------- ... aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaak! *RUN FOR THE HILLS!*

To: gg cox who wrote (15956)	3/25/2007 1:39:05 PM
From: Slagle	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218310

gg, I have lived in a shack in just such a third world shanty town, an extremely dense one, and the problem you mention, the fire hazard, just does not exist. The folks in these places, at least the successful ones, have evolved ways of handling the fire risk and all the other pitfalls of this form of existence and have done so without the maze of rules and formal inspectors common in the more developed countries. This is the "informal economy" at its best and a considerable proportion of the people in the world live in such places, in the tropics. Community policing and much else works in a similar, informally cooperative manner. FREEDOM LIVES, at least there it does.! This is not to say that there has never been a barrio fire anywhere, there have been of course and I have seen them and helped extinguish them with my own hands. To understand this you must go live in such a place, and not just for a visit. Slagle