16 January 2001 - ultimate coercive authority

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The difference between people and ants is that people don’t work as hard—I mean, is that people want to make decisions for themselves. That why we limit ultimate coercive authority to the government; every form of pushing people around that’s legal is either voluntary, like having a telephone, or sanctioned by your government, like military service. That’s why we’re so careful to control government authority using our finest technology, the Florida voting machine.

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