All in favor of detaining journalists or their significant others, raise your hands.

[kenny blankenship]

175. yes.

The underlying "crime" Victor Laszlo is pursued for to a remote colonial backwater was simply printing newspapers with content the govt didn't approve of - that, and breaking out of imprisonment. He most surely broke the law - if not before the annexation of the Sudetenland, then certainly after annexation, and then later on when he broke out of jail. Those people in this thread with their hands up would have a hard fight, going against the general drift of Casablanca, to convince us that Victor Laszlo must return to Europe to "face the music" because he was a lawbreaker, but fight they would. He broke the law, and when someone breaks the law, nothing else matters: the state is empowered to use all means to run them to ground. So they keep telling us, anyway.