<div dir="ltr"><div>"Mob" isn't just a word for "scary people I don't like."</div><div><br></div>Whether or not a group of armed people intending violence and destruction is a "mob" depends largely on leadership and coordination, n'est-ce pas?<div><br></div><div>That gaggle of NRA members sounds like it has a plan that they are taking coordinated action to pursue. So no, not a mob.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 10:20 AM John Clark 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 dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 8:39 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><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 style="font-size:18.6667px"> <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span></span><i>Any rioting mob committing acts of violence and vandalism is fascist.<span style="font-size:18.6667px"> </span></i></blockquote><div> </div><font size="4">What if, as in this case, the violent mob consists primarily of police? And a lot of the violence wasn't done by the regular police, it was <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">d</span>one by the <b>SECRET POLICE</b>, many of the rioting cops had their names and badge numbers and any other way of identifying them carefully hidden.</font><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><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>We (the well-organized militia and allies) have the right to fight them.</i></blockquote><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><span style="font-size:18.6667px"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><span style="font-size:18.6667px"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Is a gaggle of self described "militia members" running around in MAGA hats wielding torches and shotguns chanting "Jews will not replace us" a mob? </span></span></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><span style="font-size:18.6667px"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></span></div><div class="gmail_attr"><span style="font-size:18.6667px"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">John K Clark</span></span></div></div></div>
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