[geeks] education systems around the world

Phil Stracchino alaric at metrocast.net
Sat Oct 25 15:38:15 CDT 2008


Mike Meredith wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Oct 2008 13:11:12 -0500 (CDT), Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
>> Contingent force is still a threat of force.
> 
> Governments always work with the threat of force.

As a matter of fact, I've heard "government" defined as "that entity
which reserves to itself the legal use of deadly force".


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