[ExI] texas county judge demands residents wear bananas

[Stathis Papaioannou]

On Fri, 24 Apr 2020 at 08:00, Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> > Under what legal structure does this county propose to prosecute
> violators?
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> Because they can, until and unless someone files suit to make them stop.
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> > How does it deal with homeless people who have no access to orders from
> some county bureaucrat and no mask, scarf or banana?
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> It's another excuse to make homelessness a crime, without directly doing
> so (which they aren't allowed to do, given court precedent that such laws
> violate the 4th, 8th, and 14th amendments; if this finds its way to court
> and the lawyer opposing this law is competent at looking up precedent, a
> few quick citations and this law is legally indefensible).
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So is there a mechanism to make people wear masks, if it should be shown
that wearing masks will help?

On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 1:51 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>> One of the most scary things I see in the response to the epidemic is the
>> willingness with which citizens handed away their civil rights.
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>> I can see lower-level higher-ranking governments allowing something
>> forbidden by a higher-level lower-ranking government (such as California
>> did with drug laws) but I don’t quite see how it works legally if it is the
>> other way around.
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>> Under what legal structure does this county propose to prosecute
>> violators?
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>> How does it deal with homeless people who have no access to orders from
>> some county bureaucrat and no mask, scarf or banana?
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>> spike
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