[ExI] ccp struggles

[Stathis Papaioannou]

On Wed, 15 Apr 2020 at 16:43, spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> >…Do you really think the Australian Federal Police would not have pursued
> the journalists if they feared they had guns? Do you think that the US
> Government might have not have pursued Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning
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> Stathis Papaioannou
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> Stathis, these questions go off in the wrong direction.  The kinds of
> scenarios where the militia comes into play is if the regular army is not
> here for us.  They are professionals: if they are not paid, they don’t
> come.  The militia is made of citizens, not paid.  It is easy enough to
> imagine ways in which the government cannot pay its military.
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> An example of the kind of scenarios I am thinking of is when Germany
> instituted slavery and rounded up millions of its own people, unarmed,
> unable to defend.  That whole episode would have played much differently if
> the Nazis had known a bullet could come from any direction at any time.
> Had the German people been individually armed, the horrifying experience of
> the concentration camps would never have happened.  Never forget those
> lessons of history.
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> I can easily envision a change coming to this exotic hybrid of communism
> and capitalism in China today.  They want the material wealth that
> capitalism brings, while keeping the iron fist grip on power that
> governments enjoy holding.  But what if the people of the People’s Republic
> decide they want freedom of speech and the right to bear arms?  We could
> see a second Great Leap, but it really would be forward this time.
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I’m pretty sure that if Chinese citizens were armed and rebellious due to
disagreeing with the Government they would be shown no mercy; and the same
goes for US citizens.
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Stathis Papaioannou
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