<div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 2 Jun 2020 at 09:28, spike jones 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:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="m_-8249539624269980894WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #e1e1e1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal">> <b>On Behalf Of </b>SR Ballard via extropy-chat<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] ring of truth<u></u><u></u></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">I can agree John. And as the saying goes, “A rotten apple spoils the whole bunch.”<u></u><u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">SR Ballard<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Hi SR, ja, so tragic. The whole bunch refers to bad bananas (with a greasy black peel.) The rotten apple spoils the barrel.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">I saw something interesting today: the peaceful (and justified) police brutality protestors grabbed an anarchist and handed him over to the police:<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/i/status/1267240521052946432" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/i/status/1267240521052946432</a><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">That one act did more to promote their cause than anything else they could have done. These protestors have a good point. The anarchists and looters do not.</p></div></div></div></blockquote><div dir="auto">The protestors, anarchists and looters don’t seem to have a lot of guns. From what you said before, the main purpose of citizens having guns is just such an occasion as this: so that they can resist when the authorities come to bend them to their will. What would the police and the army do if the protesters all had guns: leave them alone, or respond mire aggressively? It’s not a theoretical question, because the guns do exist somewhere, and it could be coming next.</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="m_-8249539624269980894WordSection1"><div><p class="MsoNormal"></p></div></div></div>
</blockquote></div></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Stathis Papaioannou</div>