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* [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]]: Five years before JFK was assassinated, Piper wrote ''Lone Star Planet'', in which the politicians of New Texas were routinely offed if they "had it coming". |
* [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]]: Five years before JFK was assassinated, Piper wrote ''Lone Star Planet'', in which the politicians of New Texas were routinely offed if they "had it coming". |
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** This was based on a notion proposed by [[H. L. Mencken]], and it wasn't quite that routine; a court looked into each killing (or thrashing), with the assailant having to provide proof of '''what''' the politician did that deserved what happened to him. In the trial on which the story focuses, practically no one on New Texas feels the murder of Silas Cumshaw was justified. Plenty of people, instead, feel it'd be a good thing to wipe out his killers, and anyone who helped his killers.... |
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* [[Needs More Love]]: Too few people have heard of his stories. |
* [[Needs More Love]]: Too few people have heard of his stories. |
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