<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 10:04 AM SR Ballard via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>I find it difficult to believe that our governmental assets and mobilization strategies would change so violently in a 10 year period as to become completely irrelevant. </i></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">Given the huge advance in biological knowledge I find it remarkably easy to believe a plan to stop bioterrorism that was 10 years old would be utterly useless.</font></div></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span><i>This agency contacts that agency. That phone tree is activated. </i></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><font size="4">I'll be damned if I know why knowledge of a phone tree would help a terrorist spread a pandemic faster, but I find it very easy to understand why the powers that be wouldn't want certain people to know about the extraconstitutional stuff mentioned in those documents, and it's not terrorists they're worried about it's the American people, they don't want them to know those embarrassing details.</font></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span><i>The emergency declaration is signed. Congress is informed in this manner. We use this bunker here. We close all blast doors on mountain bases. We contact these allies in this order. The other team is activated.</i></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">Those decisions are pretty obvious, a terrorist could figure them out on his own if he thought it was worth his time, although I can't imagine why he would.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">John K Clark</font></div><div><br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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