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I am reminded of the (probably apocryphal) story about a logician asking for a visa to enter the US for a conference. When he got to the question "Do you plan to overthrow the United States Government by force or violence?" he hesitated and then answered "violence".

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There's a true story about Kurt Gödel's citizenship application:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_Loophole#Backgr...

> Other writers have speculated that Gödel may have had other parts of the Constitution in mind as well, including the possibility that a partisan ratchet effect, via lifetime Supreme Court appointments and selective application of the law, could permanently stack the Supreme Court with Justices of one political persuasion.

This is mentioned in the article. It's a pretty standard way to overthrow democracies — it subverts the system, using the system.

That is still the last question asked on the eQuip, and it has been reworded, implying that yes, this likely did happen.

And my delayed response likewise agitated the Mr 202 area code spec agent.

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