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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Will Steinberg<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, October 4, 2018 8:01 AM<br><b>To:</b> ExI chat list <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] Perjury<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Spike,<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>>…Let's ignore the assault allegations …<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>>…The reactions he gave to those questions should give you all you need to sufficiently judge his character.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Ja to all.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>There is irony upon irony here. My suggestion would be that if a criminal allegation is being made, it must be proven in a criminal court. Otherwise it cannot be admissible even in a job interview.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>If an appropriate job interview question is raised, I am perfectly fine with it.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>If the accusers had just gone with the high-school drunk argument to start with, then that mighta worked (at least better than this wild gambit did.) But that accusation of a criminal offense needs to be proven in criminal court. Otherwise we weaponize accusations. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Note I don’t like this candidate either (for 4<sup>th</sup> amendment reasons.) I can see that prosecutorial overreach has created a lot of sympathy for him. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>If weaponized accusation is used on an opponent this time and we go along with it and it works, where does that lead?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Cool fortunes are being made over on PredictIt, none of them mine. Dammit.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>