I must say, I thought of an older comparison: The old French idea of lettre de cachet, or imprisonment as a criminal on executive order, without due process, and the larger economy of monopolistic industries trading on royally granted special privileges that surrounded it.
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Date: 2012-01-19 04:31 pm (UTC)