<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">On Jul 19, 2020, at 6:37 AM, John Clark via extropy-chat <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org> wrote:<blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><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 Sun, Jul 19, 2020 at 9:10 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><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><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>How would anyone know that secret police existed if no one told them?</i></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4">In the current situation <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">"T</span>hought <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span>Police<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">"</span> would be a better <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">term</span> th<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">a</span>n <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">"S</span>ecret <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span>Police<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">".</span></font></div></div></div></div></blockquote><br><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Except that federal agents aren’t policing thoughts on the streets of Portland, OR. They dragging people into unmarked cars. Hence my use of ‘secret police tactics.’ See, for example,</span></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://apnews.com/95ed013d58a00db0d85ddfd14ab51d2c">https://apnews.com/95ed013d58a00db0d85ddfd14ab51d2c</a><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div style="line-height: normal;"><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><br></span></div><div><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></div></div></body></html>