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To: Slagle who wrote (16421)	4/3/2007 6:16:33 PM
From: 8bits	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 219772

"It is not that those places are lawless, quite the contrary. It is just a different sort of law." One of the most important reasons that developed countries achieved "developed" status is property rights and rigorous enforcement of contract law. Witness the wealth of Singapore (with basically no resources) compared to the Philippines, or Indonesia. Which place would you say is more law abiding and would enforce a legal contract..? I can tell you many tales about Mexico and the seizure of property... it generally involves, somewhere down the line, lining the pockets of someone who is already rather wealthy. Regarding the fellow in the Phillipines.. well he probably should have hired some of the guys he was angering or consulted with them before he got the permits.. but in many places if he was a connected local he would have just hired his own security and said screw the little guy. Getting along applies to people who don't have power. In terms of the law violated it frequently comes down to you "You have more money than I like.. I think I'll take some because I can.." In my opinion such Mob rule condemns people to ongoing poverty. There's a lot of extra-judicial "justice" (Think of the "no snitching campaigns" ) in some of the US inner cities... by and large I would say it makes like pretty crappy for people who live in those neighborhoods.

To: Slagle who wrote (16421)	4/3/2007 7:39:15 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 219772

A spot of local justice does have some drawbacks: <There may be excesses and an occasional innocent victim, like the Swiss family may have been, but it mostly works very well, from what I have seen. > Personally, I find local justice abhorrent. It's just street thug rules which is the antithesis of civilization. There used to be enthusiastic lynchings in southern USA and in modern times there was a "dragging by vehicle until dead" instance - being melanin-rich was ipso facto evidence of guilt. That was local justice for you. Freedom is great and means precisely freedom from the depredations of the local yokel thugs and distant powers. When civilization is not enforced, as it increasingly is not in New Zealand, [yet paradoxically, government imposts, regulations, laws, restrictions and bureaucracy grow daily], people eventually take the law, and self-defence, into their own hands and enforce rules which have applied since jungle times in chimpoid and wolf pack tribes. Unfortunately, government people mistake lots of rules and them confiscating and spending the money for civilization. Mqurice