From: evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com   
      
   On 10/7/25 1:54 PM, Keith F. Lynch wrote:   
   > The federal government has been shut down for about a week.  Since it   
   > shut down, I've been getting ten to twenty scam calls each day, even   
   > though I've been on the federal do-not-call list since it was founded.   
   >   
   > But I was getting the same number of calls before the shutdown, and   
   > I'm not the victim of any other federal crimes, so I don't see any   
   > harm in continuing the shutdown.   
   >   
   > Indeed, if the shutdown means that the laws are not being enforced,   
   > maybe one of the victims annoyed by all these unpunished scam calls   
   > will hunt down the scammers and kill them.  And won't get punished   
   > for it.   
      
   Murder is a state crime, and the last I checked neither Virginia nor any   
   other state had shut down.   
      
   I will not respond to the reminder of your posting.   
      
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   Evelyn C. Leeper, http://leepers.us/evelyn   
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