[ExI] chinese fires, was:RE: book review

[Stathis Papaioannou]

On Thu, 1 Dec 2022 at 10:51, 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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> *>>…*From his point of view, if the government says do something, you
> damn well do it.  He continues to be amazed by me and his own American-born
> son who go off asking if the order is legal…
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> >…If you disagree with what the Court says is legal, that’s just your bad
> luck… Stathis
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> Ja.  For my neighbor and plenty of other Asian imports, the government is
> all one big scary thing.  There is no legislature, executive, judicial, no
> federal, state, county, local authority, none of that.  The government
> never questions itself.  Every level of government answers to the one above
> it, there is nothing analogous to state law overruling federal law (as we
> have in the USA.)
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> Our system is complicated and hard to explain to one from a country where
> there is a guy up top who commands guys below him who command on down, with
> the hapless citizenry at the bottom of the power structure and no way to
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> That being said, the same neighbor noted that I appear to be friends with
> one of the local constables.  Well, ja, I am: he’s a hell of a good guy,
> and is our representative with the scout troop.  The local police
> department founded and sponsors our scout troop.  So that guy comes by a
> lot, to deliver or pick up applications or sometimes just to say hello if
> he is in the hood.  So I need to explain to my neighbor one can be friendly
> with the constables and suspicious of the feds at the same time, no logical
> contradiction at all.  Two very different things are these.
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> The federal cops, the FBI, was caught and convicted of falsifying
> evidence.  They never really did anything to the guy.  Of course that is
> going to arouse suspicion.  Now we know the FBI falsifies evidence.  The
> locals do not.
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It is possible for an official, legislator or judicial officer to be honest
yet have values contrary to your own. For example, there are probably
Taliban officials who are extremely fair in applying Sharia law, while
there may be others who can be bribed or are just lazy and don’t really
care.

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Stathis Papaioannou
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