Special to L. Neil Smith's The Libertarian Enterprise
Suppose an anonymous hacker cadre went into your city government's computer systems. Therein, they would find the records of water bills charged to individual households. Would there be any surprises?
Quite possibly there would be. Some homes might be using water without paying any bill. Some homes might be using enormous amounts of water every month, but paying a very small bill. Why? Very simply because "some animals are more equal than others," as George Orwell noted in his book Animal Farm many decades ago.
What would be the effects of publishing this information? How would the people in a given community respond to those who gain privilege at their expense? How many families had their water cut off this month because they were unable to pay, because the fools pretending to manage the global economy have continuously failed to maintain even a semblance of "full employment" or "reduced business cycle" as promised?
Suppose that hacker cadre went into other aspects of your local government. What might they learn? Would there be certain places to which the police were not to respond? Other places to which the police were to respond very promptly? Would the positioning of police in different locations reflect a desire to intimidate certain persons, or to benefit certain others?
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