""One ardent speculator even sought the War Department and logically proved that, having sent a substitute, who was virtually himself, and that substitute having been killed, he himself was a dead man, from whom the law could claim no service."
Bryan,
That is good. Kind of reminds me of an incident that I read about a few years back that involved a college kid who got a speeding ticket and while in front of the Judge, pleaded insanity. The Judge asked him how he could make that plea and the kid to him that he must have been out of his mind to speed since he did not have the money to pay the fine and that lead the judge do dismiss the case.
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