<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 4:23 PM Will Steinberg 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="auto">I agree, but I don't think it would be a 100% conviction like it would with anthrax or something like that.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Apr 17, 2020, 16:53 William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">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 class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">will wrote: <span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">I think a case could be made for not prosecuting someone stockpiling weapons and conventional bombs</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Hah! Do you think that since the gov already monitors fertilizer sales that they would pay no attention to people buying bombs? Legally, I dunno, but I would bet that that person will have the FBI on his neck the rest of his life, should he live so long. bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 1:33 PM Will Steinberg via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">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">All this talk about the constitution's bearing on WMDs is pointless. If you have one, you will be attacked by the government. Period. If you're amassing weapons--same deal. Just look at what happened in Waco.<div><br></div><div>In the end it is all about power. We have a social contract with the government. Each party has certain kinds of power. The government's power is derived from the people, but as it grows, it becomes self-sustaining. </div><div><br></div><div>One of the things the government can do with all the power (literally, as in physics: work/time) amassed from us is stockpile a huge amount of weapons and pay people to use them in enforcement. If the government decides you are violating the social contract--well, they make the rules. No legal argument will fly in the case of someone stockpiling something like anthrax or nuclear weapons.</div><div><br></div><div>I think a case could be made for not prosecuting someone stockpiling weapons and conventional bombs, but that could be a tough case if you are engaging in ANY kind of anti-government activity, even just protesting or posting online. The government has the power to get the best lawyers, do the best investigative work on you and all your skeletons, and even influence the media against you.</div><div><br></div><div>The constitution is more fragile than you may think. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>
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