[TheForge] banning samurai swords (in england)

[Andrew Vida]

Grant Marcoux wrote:
> No surprise here....English subjects are not allowed to own weapons; that's
> what makes them subjects.  From subject to object is a shorter step than
> some realize.  Grant

	Well said.  What I have been lately contemplating (last 30 years or so) 
is the idea of "equality" - what it really means and what it implies. 
Being a "subject" violates any assumption of equality on its face.  I 
would not want to live there.