[ExI] ring of truth

[Stathis Papaioannou]

On Tue, 2 Jun 2020 at 13:29, spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> I doubt it.  The rioters would have to recognize how outgunned they are.
> They are facing the army, the national guard, the police and an armed
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> The army, national guard and police would outgun armed citizens aggrieved
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> said was the check on the state or their agents acting tyrannically. It
> seems to me that the only real check is that the army, national guard,
> police and those ordering them to act would not want to cause a massacre,
> not that they fear they would lose in a fight against citizens with guns.
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> Stathis Papaioannou
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> Stathis, the aggrieved citizens protest, they capture and hand over
> anarchists to the National Guard, as you saw on the video.  The armed
> citizenry sympathizes with the protestors, who are all in agreement: there
> are bad cops, but not all cops are bad.  The good cops, the National Guard,
> the army, the militia, the armed citizens not part of the militia, are all
> on the same side.  That’s why we have a militia and an armed citizenry.
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> A well-regulated militia is necessary to the security of a free state.  We
> want a secure free state.  That’s why we have a well-regulated militia and
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The well-armed citizenry might decide that the police chief, governor and
president all need to go. The police chief, governor and president might
disagree, and call the well-armed citizenry terrorists and thugs (and even,
using the term incorrectly, anarchists). What happens then?

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Stathis Papaioannou
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