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If the government told you that if you

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didn't hurl yourself off a cliff or

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refused to feed your family when they

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were starving that you could be

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arrested, would you obey that? Well,

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apparently it seems that many would.

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Hello, my name's Ernest. Thank you for

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tuning in.

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Today I encountered something.

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I'm telling you, I I encountered

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something so incredibly unbelievably

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stupid,

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I wanted to share it with you. So that's

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what this is going to be about

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because

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there are laws and well there are laws.

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Now generally speaking I am of the

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opinion that um we should have laws and

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all laws aren't bad. Um,

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for instance, um, there can be, you

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know, say if you had a disagreement with

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your neighbor or whatnot or what have

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you, and you know, you you sincerely

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because they're a such a complete

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unmitigated um, idiot, you feel like

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killing them, but yeah, you probably

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shouldn't. Um, I'm not saying that's the

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case with all idiots.

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But I'm saying in general, yeah, we we

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shouldn't go around killing each other.

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But having said that,

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there are a hell of a lot of laws that

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are patently stupid, and

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this is one of them. Um and often times

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here's the thing that we look at

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something that's a law and we can look

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at it you know collectively

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I mean because after the fact you know

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it is a lot easier to analyze things

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when we have a actually have a chance to

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think about them and um you know so we

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don't want to you know do anything in

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the heat of the moment But yeah, that is

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the case that I think that collectively

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as citizens we should have that

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opportunity to reverse laws that for

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lack of a better description are just

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plain [ __ ] stupid. And here's one of

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them.

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A lot of people um for all I know, I

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can't speak for other states. I can only

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speak of here in Oregon,

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but this is something that I was so

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dumbruck by um that um well, I'll I'll

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just lay it out there to you. Um, it

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concerns game

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and what comes from game, but meat,

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edible meat,

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and um, apparently

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for whatever reason, I don't know if

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it's just elk or if it's certain other

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game big game animals as well, but um,

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you can get a hunting license and you

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can go out and hunt them fine. And

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apparently you could use them for

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yourself. Fine,

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but you can't sell it.

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I don't know about giving it away, but

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you can't sell it.

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Now,

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um there's this is problematic on

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multiple levels, but here's here's what

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I'm going to go into first. Um,

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so if you have friends, family members,

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and they are in need of that elk meat,

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for instance, even if they offer to buy

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it, you can't sell it cuz it's illegal.

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And I'm going to tell you, I don't give

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a damn about all the hogwash that

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they're going to talk about this. And

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for all I know, this, as I said, this

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could exist in many other states. I I

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don't know until you talk to me. I don't

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know. And if you're somewhere else in

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the world, I would be really interested

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in hearing about how if if these same

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kind of laws exist in other places, you

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know, such as I don't know the in Europe

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or, you know, what have you.

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But um at least to me in here, it's it's

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it's beyond stupid. And here's the

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thing.

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when you often times what most people

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they just look at each other and they

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they shrug and they shake their heads

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and that wow it's just unbelievably

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stupid but actually if you knew the real

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reasons behind it and I feel that I do

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know at least one of the major real

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reasons why a certain thing for instance

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like in selling elk me from a [ __ ]

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elk that you shot on your property and

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you should by any common sense measure

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be able to do what it whatever the hell

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you please

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within reason.

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But apparently no. And my uh my uh

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thought on that is pure and simple. It's

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a it's a criminal mob thing. It's not

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taxable in practical terms. It's just

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realistically it's not taxable.

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And so like just about anything else in

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America, if the government, the mob so

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to speak, if they don't get their cut

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out of something, then it's illegal.

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Do do you do you see the hypocrisy here?

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As soon as it is taxable, hey, go ahead.

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We're getting we're stealing our cut out

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of what is should be your property which

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should be yours. I mean after all that

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is the point. Well, no it's not because

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getting hunting license is actually to

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generate again through taxation more

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revenue for the state. So that's another

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form of thievery when it's on your land

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to be able to hunt what is on your land.

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But

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setting even that aside for the moment,

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I mean, if you had if you if you were a

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person family, if you want to call them

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that, I have other names. Uh something

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uh pleasant, I'd call them [ __ ] I

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don't know, cretins, let's say.

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And you you wouldn't even feed your

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family.

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You wouldn't even feed your family. It's

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that bad. Can you picture this? Picture

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this scenario. So your son or daughter

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and their family, you know, they're on

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hard times and uh meat's expensive and

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maybe they don't live there. Maybe they

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live in the city, maybe, you know,

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whatever, relatively nearby, but they're

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on hard times. you know, they're having

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hard times and you know, uh, dad or

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whatever killed this elk and they, yeah,

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they could use the meat because that's

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the way we lived in this country for

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centuries.

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But can you imagine a father, mother,

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whoever, or brother having this kind of

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conversation?

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Well, yeah. I'm sorry, sis, and

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everything. I mean, I know y'all are

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starved to death. You got a couple of

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youngans and all, but I'd love to give

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you this help, but I can't do it cuz

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government says it's illegal. So, I

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don't know. I don't know what y'all

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going to do, and I I'd love to do it for

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you, but I don't want to go to jail or

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nothing. So, I can't give you no elf

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meat. Sorry.

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Now, if if that doesn't just strike you

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as completely, totally, and utterly

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[ __ ] idiotic, cruel,

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whatever you want to attach to it,

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that apparently the people involved on

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this, the people that agreed to this,

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because somewhere along the line,

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however far back you want to go, some

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group of bozos or somebody who didn't

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care enough to examine the laws of other

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state,

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you know, collectively agreed to this.

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This is the reason why I've said

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repeatedly

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laws by and large are arbitrary.

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They're arbitrary by definition. And so

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if you want to just live your life, I'm

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saying you, not you personally, I'm

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collectively people.

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And if they want to live their life

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where they have they put everything onto

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this other group of representatives,

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well, you'll probably going to stand a

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chance that the only thing those

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representatives end up doing over time

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is they're damn good at representing

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themselves,

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their interest. And so if you just don't

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do anything and then these laws start

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affecting your life and then then after

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the fact as though it was a complete

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mystery to them, they turn around say,

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"What the hell? What do you mean? I

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can't get Yes, sir. We You allowed us to

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pass that law that was 3, five years

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ago." Oh, what the hell? I don't

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understand.

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to be.

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And this is what I mean. This is what

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I've been talking about forever.

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When you don't participate in things

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actively, you just say, "Well, I'm too

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damn lazy, crazy, or stupid or whatever.

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I ain't got time to him and I don't

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worry about this law and that. I'll just

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trust them."

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And then you end up with [ __ ] like this

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or

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things like, and there's a million

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examples, but just say another one that

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many of you are familiar with is uh the

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the crazy crazy of HOAs.

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And if you want to paint your house,

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screw you.

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And say you want to paint your house,

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just say you do. Paint your house

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purple. Paint your house chartreuse.

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Nope. it's been by the laws or

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regulations if you will of a particular

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HOA, you will paint it within a certain

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set parameters of colors and shades in

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compliance with the HOA.

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All of this that I'm talking about

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though the overarching problem here,

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this is the bigger crux of the issues.

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the issues that I'm talking about with,

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you know, the HOA and this simple thing

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of what the hell you can do with, you

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know, the meat from an animal that you

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paid a license for to shoot and kill as

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your bounty. Your meaning possess it,

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meaning yours as in again within reason,

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you should be able to do with it what

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the hell you please.

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That is the tenant of property.

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But but

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apparently people either I don't know

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don't understand or don't care about

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this.

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I do. But I'm just saying I'm shocked

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that the response that I got back from

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this person

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at my uh one of my local watering holes

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and I I I knew them. I knew this couple.

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I've known him for two, three years at

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least, you know, and very superficial

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pleasant trees and whatnot. But, you

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know, I was feeling the water and I

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overheard the guy when they were eating

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at a table not far from me and he was

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talking about there was going out

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hunting and whatnot. And when he

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finished his call, you know, very

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lightheartedly, I said, "Hey, when you

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get that elk, let me know. I'll I'll buy

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some of that meat from you." And then he

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immediately piped in and said, "Oh, no.

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I can't do that. It's against the law."

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And there you go.

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This is what happens

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to blind, unthinking

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obedience

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to laws.

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And that's what pisses me off so much.

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Then when all the things that eventually

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follow from this from as a consequence

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of blind obedience to laws,

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you inevitably end up with uh well

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really bad things and a lot of trouble.

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I think we learned that from 1940s

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Germany

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when um you know just you know just I

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don't know it was 10 years before that

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[ __ ] happened that people were

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considered relatively normal

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and then the next thing you know the

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vast majority are conditioned

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to blindly follow propaganda and Then

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laws

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and this is the inherent problem

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that no one

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apparently individually, collectively or

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whatnot, no one will think about the

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implications

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of laws

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and that um you know how it's bad.

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Hey there. Just wanted to show you my

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absolutely amazing Earnest Man Show tote

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bag. And what makes it so amazing? It

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looks great. And it's big. Big enough to

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hold all your personal problems.

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Well, okay, maybe not that big, but it

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does hold a lot of stuff.

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Anyway, um I was so stupified by this

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that this is generally speaking a lot of

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these people and here's the irony again.

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Here is yet another irony that in this

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area

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um with many of these folks,

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they're supposed to be or think of

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themselves

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as conservative.

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Well, they may be conservative, they may

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not, but I can tell you one thing is

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sure as [ __ ] in taxes, they are

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absolutely conformist.

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And conformity

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is u it's a bad thing.

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It's unthinking. Conformity is what

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eventually gets your ass in a lot of

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trouble when you're doing a lot less,

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you know, thinking

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about anything and just blindly

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following quote unquote the law. Well,

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he can't do that cuz they say there's a

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law where there's a hell hell of a lot

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of laws.

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Vast majority of them, they can call

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them laws. Vast majority of them are

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actually mechanisms of control

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designed for those

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who do the controlling.

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There's a lot of people out there, I

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guess, that haven't thought this

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through,

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but I have. And I don't know if you'll

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agree with me or not, but I wanted to

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share this with you because just the the

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implications of this, especially

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today, especially

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as you know, hard times

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um as we're in today.

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And I, you know, I'm just saying all

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things being reversed, if I had my own

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land and my own property,

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I wouldn't give a rat's ass what they

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said whatsoever. If my family,

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friends, or whoever the hell I chose.

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These are hard times. If people are

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hungry, I'm going to feed them.

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I'm going to keep enough of course for

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you know myself and my family but

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anything I got left over if they need it

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if they you know if they can't pay me

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fine whatever

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because that's the bedrock of the way

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this country used to operate you know 75

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100 years ago

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when we were less controlled

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less

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digitized and

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well our humanity was not perfect but um

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in my opinion it was

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well much closer to being human.

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So

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at any rate I just wanted to share that

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with you. So

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until next time, this is Ernest and

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that's all I've got for today.