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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> extropy-chat [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>William Flynn Wallace<br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, September 17, 2016 7:56 AM<br><b>To:</b> ExI chat list <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] sugar industry corruption<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#222222'>It has been argued that with excessive oversight, the government cannot get anything done. This is almost right. With proper oversight, the government cannot get anything done illegally. spike</span><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#222222'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#222222'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#222222'>Excessive, by definition, is too much.</span><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#222222'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#222222'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#222222'>It makes me wonder such things as : what was so important about the Democrats paperwork that the Repubs set up a burglary at the Watergate? Just knowing campaign strategy is worth a felony?</span><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#222222'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#222222'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#222222'>What they don't want us to know is the deals, the quid pro quo. Who won the deal and who lost. Remember the saying about law and sausage.</span><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#222222'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#222222'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#222222'>Hillary may be as big a narcissist as the Donald.</span><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#222222'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#888888'> </span><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#888888'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#888888'>spike</span><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#888888'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#888888'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Hi BillW, do note carefully the attributions. The above appears to have been written by me. No harm done, and I agree with the sentiment in this case.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>I have an interesting what-if for you on that Watergate business. What if… the burglars had been successful and bugged the offices, then found some really deep corruption, something that was clearly illegal, explosive. But the evidence was seized illegally. A bad guy caught another bad guy, but caught himself too. The two bad guys make the usual WHaGAWIT comment, in unison, but with a fun twist: …if it hadn’t been for {each other.} Then what happens? Americans would end up deploring both our mainstream parties. It almost reminds me of something. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></body></html>