<strong><br/>Tuesday 13th August 10:38<br/><br/>Alley at the side of McDonalds, Northumberland Street<br/><br/>Miyo, Norm, Chris</strong><br/><br/>"Magical revolution" he nods to Miyo.  "I mean, not like a proper revolution, not guerrillas in the streets.  Like the Internet or, man, like everyone learning how to read.  That kind of revolution.  It's fucking ley lines, man.  It's obvious when its pointed out to you."  He's talking quite fast, an accent you can't quite place but assume is Kasmiri becoming stronger as he gets excited.  He pauses long enough to take a cigarette from a packet in his pocket but doesn't light it yet.  He's the type who talks with his hands and the cigarette sits between his index and middle finger while he gestures expansively.<br/><br/>"Man, I'm putting this in a rubbish order aren't I.  Man.  OK, let's see if I can't do this sensibly.  I'll explain it to you the way it was explained to me.<br/><br/>"So, imagine a new island appeared, the size of Ireland say.  And for whatever reason you are put in charge of it."  The wave of the cigarette happened to be point at Chris when he said<em>you</em>but you get the sense that isn't overly relevant.<br/><br/>"What you decide to do is to set out the rules, the legal code and all of that, and then you'll let settlers in.  There's noone there at the moment, it's a new island.<br/><br/>"So you sit down to write some laws.  Making sure murder is illegal, you know.  But you also need to define what murder is.  Is it murder if a soldier kills an enemy solider?  Well, no.  Probably not.  So you need to think about all of these exceptions and special cases.<br/><br/>"But eventually you've got them all written and you open the ports to let new people in.  Then go on holiday because it's been really hard work writing all those laws.<br/><br/>"You come back after a year's holiday and have a look round.  It's pretty much fine but there are a few bits and bobs that are wrong.  Because<em>all</em>of your laws apply<em>all</em>the time they all interact with one another.  And this is the first time you've written a whole load of laws and some of the interactions aren't what you originally wanted.  Like, maybe your Disability Discrimination laws say that people in wheelchairs shouldn't have to pay money to the government for any type of essential service.  Whoops, you've just made it so wheelchair people don't have to pay tax?  Because that's for the hospitals and the police and other essential services.  You meant wheelchair repairs and ramps when you said it, but didn't think to make that clear.<br/><br/>"But it takes a little effort for people to find these loopholes.  Like, have you ever read the tax laws?  I haven't.  Most people just assume they work in the way they expect them to, rather than actually checking.  Hell, for all I know we might not have any tax laws and the tax collectors are just crossing their fingers and hoping noone notices.<br/><br/>"And, sure, you could close those loopholes.  But you're smart enough to realise that you'll probably just accidentally add new ones.  So you come up with another plan.  Fine, you'll let those loopholes stay, most people don't know about them anyway.  But you create a new police force to go around making sure those who know about them don't tell anyone.  If one wheelchair person isn't paying tax then its a pain but whatever.  If they go around spreading the word though?  Man, that's a problem and that's what your new police cut down on.<br/><br/>"Eventually your police are so good that people come to believe there aren't these loopholes.  Like, if at a wheelchair meeting, or whatever, one guy says to the other you know we don't have to pay tax?  Well, the second guy dismisses the first as a crazy person, because those police have been so good at cutting down mention of it.<br/><br/>"You with me man?  That's how the universe is.  There are little loopholes, little things that don't make sense.  Like anger, man.  Anger was put together wrong. But there's loads of them. And that's the wheelchair tax thing.  Odds and ends that don't actually work the way most people think they do, but the Sleepers hush it all up and make sure anyone pointing it out looks like a crazy person.<br/><br/>"What we wanna do is show everyone.  Point to these things. Am I" he pauses to light his cigarette "am I making any damn sense here?"<br/>