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I said, “I certainly expect an agreement, no matter what it is. An agreement can be made no matter what other people are doing. You can always agree on something that is right and proper to do without regard to what the other person is doing.”

“But you can't expect an agreement when it's illegal.”

I said, “But after all, who knows if it's illegal?” I said those words, “Who knows if it's illegal?” At once they printed that I had said that this was a legal action. All I had said was, “Who knows if it's legal or not? The lawyers will be writing about this for years, because it's a peculiar action. There's no case in legal history to which they can refer me that bears on this, and they've been searching the books.” I explained that to them right then and there. I said, “This is trespass, if it's anything.”

They were furious when I said that, because trespass isn't really anything. Everybody has trespassed on somebody's land. But trespass, of course, can be a serious offense. However, it's generally thought of as a very alight offense. Nonetheless, the cases on trespass were the cases you'd have to look for under this situation.

Of course, the Technocrats and some of the other people who wrote in the early thirties had written a lot