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From: mfs@mhuxr.UUCP (SIMON)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Re: Why private police forces won't work
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Date: Fri, 14-Dec-84 17:12:26 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec 14 17:12:26 1984
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> >  Suppose I owe you $1,000 and refuse to pay.  You decide to use
> >  force to collect your debt, so you send your police to my house to
> >  force me to pay up.  They are met by a squad of MY police who
> >  say that they do not recognize the legitimacy of your claim.
> >  
> >  Result: gang warfare.
> 
> Not likely.  Protection agencies are in business to make money.  Fighting
> each other is not a good way to make money.  It would be more profitable if
> the agencies submitted the dispute to an arbitration agency.  Your contract
> would specify that your agency will not protect you from the other guy
> (in this particular matter) should you lose the arbitration.
> 
> Market forces win again!

If you have to submit to binding arbitration, what's the point of having
your own mercenaries?

Marcel Simon			..!mhuxr!mfs