Re: So why would anyone become a shadowrunner, anyway?

"Tetsubo" <tetsubo@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> Glenn Dowdy wrote:
>
>>"Bira" <u.alberton@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>On 11/17/06, Zebulin M <zebulingod@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>
>>>>I don't agree that Shadowrunners are unrealistic. After all, look at
all 
>>>>the
>>>>movies and books and whatnot who's main focus are "secret agents". 
>>>>Better
>>>>yet, the ones where a company keeps certain people around to ensure 
>>>>things
>>>>are "taken care of" such as the security goons in that lawyer book
(the 
>>>>name
>>>>escapes me at the moment, but the actor was in top gun, and days of
>>>>thunder... gah!)
>>>>
>>>As you said it yourself, they're /agents/, rather than freelance
>>>adventurers.
>>>
>>
>>I'd say they're more like /contractors/, used by
governments/cor****ations 
>>for plausible deniability. Look at the number of private security firms 
>>operating in Iraq and Afghanistan right now. They could easily be hired 
>>for extra-legal activities.
>>
>    Newsflash: They already are...
>
A bad bit of writing on my part. "Could" = "can" = "are".

Glenn D.