From: rrufiange@cfl.rr.com   
      
   "Critter"  wrote in message   
   news:Ykhsb.173690$HS4.1434202@attbi_s01...   
   >      Robert Heinlein's "Conventry" was a riff on this idea.   
      
   You misspelled "Coventry".   
      
   >        Since Australia is not available any longer, we might try the Moon.   
   > Oops, Heinlein's been there, too, in "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress."   
   >   
   >        My plan: Set aside 100,000 square miles of Dakota badland--or lease   
   > space in British Columbia. Surround it with a triple-death-electric fence   
   (a   
   > la Jurassic Park?)...and armed guards with dogs authorized to shoot on   
   > sight.   
      
   Your plan is not BANISHMENT, but IMPRISONMENT.   
   Whether you lock some people into a building in various states, or rope off   
   a large tract of land in one place, you're still imprisoning them.  Quit   
   using the wrong words.   
      
   >        Someone commits a felony. He is given a survival pack and a   
   > parachute. So long, buddy; don't come back. You've broken the 'social   
   > compact' and we don't want to play with you any more.   
      
   That's got absolutely nothing to do with banishment, plunger-boy.   
      
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