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stopdiggin

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3. there is an idea kicked around

Reply to stopdiggin (Reply #2)

Tue Dec 15, 2020, 03:37 PM

Dec 2020

that an "emergency" (or war, or crisis) should be subject to regular re-certification (with hearings, argument and disclosure) at given intervals. Whether this really provides much relief to fundamental issue of authoritarianism ....? But it's probably a measure to be considered for good government in general.

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If you allow the government to break the law during an emergency, ... [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2020 OP

But I digress... discntnt_irny_srcsm Dec 2020 #1

True. But there's also a flip side to this argument stopdiggin Dec 2020 #2

there is an idea kicked around stopdiggin Dec 2020 #3