Re:'Hitler Tamed by Prison' (1924)
by duncan_bayne on Monday April 03, 2017 @08:35PM
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Personally I think a feigned respect for the rule of law is actually more dangerous, as it allows people to rationalise their support of politicians and parties with little actual respect for same.
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You may be right. Hopefully the silver lining of all this mess will be an awakened populace that holds even the less obviously tyrannical to account.
Re:'Hitler Tamed by Prison' (1924)
by duncan_bayne on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @07:11PM
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Or even the enablers of tyranny.
Take Obamacare as an example. Leaving aside the issue of whether socialised healthcare is a good idea, Obama had to circumvent the law by instructing the IRS to collect revenues via an executive order.
Is that really a precedent that should have been set? Even socialists should have been a little uneasy at the disregard for the Constitution there, but instead, the ends won out over the means, and it went ahead.