<p dir="ltr">Sparr, I think you know me well enough to know that I will be the first to provide my space's members with jackboots.</p>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jul 22, 2016 4:06 PM, "Sparr" <<a href="mailto:sparr0@gmail.com">sparr0@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I've been on the losing side of lighter versions of this argument a few times over the past ten years, at various hackerspaces. A lot of people claim that they think that the law trumps a space's charter or mission statement.<div><br></div><div>Here in the USA, we're looking at a future where it is scarily plausible that some segment of the population will be banned from a lot of activities, which might include things such as "taking machine shop classes" or "working with explosive gases".<br><br>When your state or federal legislature passes a law, or your president issues an executive order, that says Muslims (or some ethnic minority) can't do those things, where will you stand on whether your space follows that law or not?</div></div>
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