<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">On Jan 8, 2020, at 7:04 PM, Rafal Smigrodzki via extropy-chat <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org> wrote:<blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 10:23 AM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">I have been in this group for quite some time, but I have not read anything as scary as 'paid killers' and 'secret police'. Just why do we need those? Rafal? </div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>### Every day when you wake up and notice that your house has not been burglarized and your throat has not been slit by bandits, say thanks to the thin blue line that stands between us and chaotic evil. </div></div></div></div></blockquote><br><div>You must live in a different universe because statistics seem to show the folks in blue tend to take more, reduce overall freedom, and even have a strong tendency to shoot unarmed people and their dogs.</div><div><br></div><div>As for a secret police, that’s another kettle of fish. Any libertarian who supports secret police seems have misunderstood the whole point of libertarianism: it’s about a just and free society not a prison camp.</div><div><br></div><div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Regards,</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><br></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"> Sample my Kindle books at:</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">http://author.to/DanUst</span></p></div></div></div></body></html>