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The Triumph of the Commons in Barbuda

It Could Happen Here

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Bob Yoda and Ted DuGarl

Bob Yoda was forfeited to the crown for an on-payment of rent in 1898. When a government official visited the island, we found the dare were almost exterminated. They had four men to round up about 100 horses, eight a cattle and a bunch of cows. Dr DuGarl's gunners also apparently had a really bad sense of aim because a lot of the fences were just riddled with bullets. So only their own traditional hunting and farming enabled Bob Yoda to survive.

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