[ExI] Running up against energy limits

[Stathis Papaioannou]

On Tue, 14 Sep 2021 at 11:00, 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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> >…So the only reason the people who stormed Congress did not qualify fir
> the legal definition of a militia is that they were not armed?
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> A militia or the militia?  There were members of the militia among them.
> But if they called themselves a militia, they were merely a terrorist
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> >… Or is it more the fact that they weren’t really upholding freedom and
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> The militia, if the police and military fail.  The police and military
> didn’t fail.  Well, one did actually.  One of them shot somebody.
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They believed that the police and military failed because they were
supporting the wrong side. If they didn’t believe that they would have
stayed home. So in their view, they were the legitimate militia, not
terrorists. Who decides if the militia is legitimate or not in these cases?

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Stathis Papaioannou
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