[ExI] texas county judge demands residents wear bananas

[Stathis Papaioannou]

On Sat, 25 Apr 2020 at 05:04, spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *From:* extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> *On Behalf
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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 factor do not sound fine to me…  spike
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> >…The US constitution can easily be interpreted by the judiciary to allow
> banning of weapons…
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> That’s why we have weapons: in case the “judiciary” decides it is allowed
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If you are saying the law can be ignored if you don’t like it, why go on
about the constitution?

> >… or formally amended by the legislature…
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> Not the legislature.  The constitution needs a 2/3 majority of the states
> to agree to any constitutional amendment and ¾ of the states to ratify.
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State legislature.

> Regarding the first ten amendments, those are not really amendments, but
> rather acknowledgement of rights that pre-existed before that particular
> government was invented.  The right to free speech, freedom to assemble, to
> bear arms and so forth, all existed before the US government.
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> The US government does not have the authority to amend or repeal human
> rights.  If it asserts that authority in the future, it no longer the US
> government and is not entitled to the authorities granted to it by the
> constitution.  At that time, there is no professional army, for there is no
> authority to collect taxes, and no means of paying them.  The absence of a
> professional army is why we have the militia, as the backup.
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Different humans may have different views of what is a human right. The
right to bear arms is a good example of this. The people who disagree with
you may vote for politicians or appoint judges who will then act
accordingly. You can, of course, resist, but you are then going against due
legal process, which is in part what you claim to be defending.
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Stathis Papaioannou
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