[Gllug] Black day

[Rev Simon Rumble]

On Thu 16 Jan, Dylan bloviated thus:

> But the copyright on Peter Pan was not /stolen/! JM Barrie left it GOS 
> hospital in his will - the 1988 law simply makes sure that that situation 
> remains. How can you not like performance rights payments going to support a 
> hospital?

Because we live in a socialist society where hospitals are supposed to
be funded by taxation.

And why only a London hospital and not a hospital in Newcastle?  Why
only a childrens' hospital and not an aged care home?

Exceptions are bad, but often politically expedient.  I can just
imagine the Yes Minister-like prods that dissenting ministers got who
objected to some other part of the bill:

"But think of the kiddies, Minister.  You wouldn't like the papers to
 say 'Hacker blocks kids hospital money' tomorrow, would you?"

-- 
Rev Simon Rumble <simon at rumble.net>
www.rumble.net
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 "Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal"
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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