OA134: Do Intergalactic Extraterrestrial Anchor Babies Use Cryptocurrency?

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🗓️ 29 December 2017

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Today's episode is a deep dive into cryptocurrency. First, we're delighted to share some breaking news with you that follows up on our Episode 132 about a student and his crazy-person lawyer trying to introduce creationism at Thomas's old high school, Bret Harte High. As it turns out, friend of the show and FFRF attorney Andrew Seidel has written a masterful letter to the school and offered to co-counsel with them pro bono. In the extra-length main segment, we discuss some of the issues surrounding cryptocurrency and the law. Finally, we end with an all-new Thomas Takes the Bar Exam Question #56 about the fraudulent sale of a stove. Remember that you can play along with #TTTBE by retweeting our episode on Twitter or sharing it on Facebook along with your guess. We'll release the answer on next Tuesday's episode along with our favorite entry! Recent Appearances Andrew was recently a guest on Episode 14 of the How-To Heretic podcast! Give it a listen! Show Notes & Links

We first discussed Bret Harte High in our Episode 132; you can also read an account of the school board hearing; visit crazy person Greg Glaser's website and read all about the evils of vaccinations, numerological theology, and (of course) his proposed Earth Constitution.
Andrew Seidel's letter is republished (with his permission) here.
The actual cases relevant to the dispute are Tinker v. Des Moines Independent School District, 393 U.S. 503 (1969) and Kitzmiller v. Dover, 400 F.Supp.2d 707 (M.D. Pa. 2005).
If you love Andrew Seidel, you might want to go back to his previous appearances on the show, Episode 82 (on Trinity Lutheran), Episode 85 (which was originally a Patreon-only exclusive),Episode 111, and Episode 131.
And if that's still not enough Andrew for you, you can catch up on Andrew Seidel's most recent writings: his op-ed on Masterpiece Cakeshop, which you can read here; his blog post on right-wing legal organizations; and, of course, his FFRF press release celebrating the victory in keeping Mateer and Talley off the federal bench.
You can view the IGM survey we discuss here.
This is the bitcoin FAQ.
The case I discuss is SEC v. Shavers, 2013 WL 4028182 (E.D. Texas Aug. 6, 2013, Case No. 4:13-cv-416).

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0:00.0	I declare bankruptcy!
0:20.0	I congratulate you on your imagination, but this is a court of space law not a theater.
0:26.0	The tax meant this in Sendium, Gloria, Calpum etc. etc.
0:34.0	Memo, Bis, Punitor, Debra, Cattam is all there, black and white, clear as crystal.
0:42.0	How is this a fair trial? Our lawyer is a morty!
0:46.0	It's not fair, you have no rights and he's not a lawyer. We just keep him here because he's fun.
0:50.0	Look at him go!
0:52.0	Welcome to Opening Arguments, the podcast that pairs an inquisitive interviewer with a real-life lawyer.
1:00.0	This podcast is sponsored by the Law Offices of P. Antertores, LLC for Entertainment purposes,
1:06.0	is not intended as legal advice and does not form an attorney-client relationship.
1:10.0	Don't take legal advice from a podcast.
1:12.0	Hello and welcome to Opening Arguments. This is episode 134. I'm your host Thomas Smith.
1:24.0	That over there is your brilliant lawyer host Andrew Torres. How you doing?
1:28.0	Hey Thomas, I'm great! You have a nice holiday?
1:30.0	Oh yeah, that's that again. So now is it the first, the last episode before?
1:36.0	Now you can go on your emotional and passion speech about how all the listeners and me and everything.
1:44.0	Yes, I did looking forward to new years and then looking forward to losing 10 pounds.
1:50.0	That's all on my agenda except my numbers a little higher than 10.
1:54.0	That was actually a setup for me to mention that literally five minutes before we were scheduled to record...
2:02.0	Five minutes before we started recording, a few minutes after we were scheduled to record.
2:06.0	The FedEx arrived at my house with the most wonderful package of 2017, which I will share on our Facebook page.
2:16.0	It was a gift from the entire Smith family and I was fairly interested.
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