[ExI] texas county judge demands residents wear bananas

[Stathis Papaioannou]

On Sat, 25 Apr 2020 at 03:13, spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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>  I agree that is a problem with the system but it can be fixed.  The rest
> of the world, even anarchist societies, could adopt the US constitution.
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> >…The US constitution … may be an impediment to tyrannical takeover…
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> Ja.  It really works well for that.
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> >…but many countries in the world have fine-sounding constitutions
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> The countries which were or have become tyrannies do not have a second
> amendment.  Without second amendment rights, every country is vulnerable to
> becoming a tyranny.  The fine-sounding constitutions without that critical
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The US constitution can easily be interpreted by the judiciary to allow
banning of weapons, or formally amended by the legislature. Also, there are
countries where citizens have the constitutional right to weapons, such as
Mexico and Guatemala, and others where the citizens actually have a lot of
weapons, such as Afghanistan and Somalia, and they are not models of
democracy.

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Stathis Papaioannou
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