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malthaussen

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7. This is the natural consequence of the Patriot Act and associated legislation.

Thu Mar 13, 2025, 01:04 PM

Mar 13

Once you decide your chosen enemies have no rights, you are under no obligation to treat them with any humanity. And of course the current Administration equates strength with cruelty, so would have no such inhibitions anyway.

It exploits the glaring weakness of human consensus: if you don't like the rules, why just change them and do as you please. It might make foreign travel a bit dicey, as theoretically one could be arrested if he visited somewhere where there was a warrant out for him, but who would want to leave the great Paradise America will become anyway?

-- Mal

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Also known as "be done by as you do." Swede Mar 13 #1

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