<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#000000" face="UICTFontTextStyleBody" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">>The law doesn’t do that fortunately. </span></font></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I’m so excited that you realize hypothetical situations are hypothetical. Answer the question. Would you, or would you not, participate in the genocide of the Jewish People?</div><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#000000" face="UICTFontTextStyleBody" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">To answer your question, law doesn’t do that. </span></font></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Except when law does do that. Like in Germany, where it was the law.</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#000000" face="UICTFontTextStyleBody" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Nothing that I recognize as law does that. </span></font></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>So if a law asks you to so something you abhor, it’s magically not a law anymore?</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#000000" face="UICTFontTextStyleBody" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Law would prevent that. </span></font></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Law can’t prevent anything. The law doesn’t prevent murder. It just makes things illegal. </div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#000000" face="UICTFontTextStyleBody" size="3"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It is a feature of the military that they train officers in refusing illegal orders.</span></font></p></div></div></blockquote><br></div><div>And yet they still give illegal orders to troops, and still send those same troops to military jail for refusing to follow them. Weird.</div><div><br></div><div>><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">rather disturbing observation with regard to orders from Washington DC to do this or do that on covid-19</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div>If people didn’t treat it as an insane power-grab, then it wouldn’t have been like this. We never reacted this way to H1N1.</div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr">SR Ballard</div><div dir="ltr"><br>On Aug 26, 2020, at 4:57 PM, <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com">spike@rainier66.com</a>> <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)"><style><!--
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> SR Ballard <<a href="mailto:sen.otaku@gmail.com">sen.otaku@gmail.com</a>> <br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] the law<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">The law tells you to round up and shoot Jews. <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Is it okay to round them up?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">To shoot them?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">To help them escape?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">To lie and to forge paperwork to help them escape?<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">SR Ballard<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">The law doesn’t do that fortunately. The reference you made is to Nazi Germany, and a perfect example of why we don’t heil anyone. They were doing that, and handing one guy way too much power, which was promptly abused in a most horrifying way. Stalin did that (swearing allegiance to him personally) Mao did that (having school children sing songs about what a great guy he was.) <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">We must always keep in mind that bad things happen when we make personalities too big a part of the picture.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">To answer your question, law doesn’t do that. Nothing that I recognize as law does that. Law would prevent that. It is a feature of the military that they train officers in refusing illegal orders.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Regarding law, I have had a rather disturbing observation with regard to orders from Washington DC to do this or do that on covid-19 that we were told applied to citizens. POTUS doesn’t command citizens. She commands the military.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">spike <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></body></html>