Sides? (was Re: the terrorist bombings in London

[Paul Mackin]

I guess I better provide a more authoritative version  of the Adam Smith 
quote:

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and 
diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, 
or in some contrivance to raise prices. It is impossible indeed to 
prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or 
would be consistent with liberty and justice. But though the law cannot 
hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it 
ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies; much less to render 
them necessary.

The Wealth of Nations, 1776

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