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snot

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23. And nevertheless to insist on and fight for

Reply to sinkingfeeling (Reply #5)

Sat Jan 17, 2026, 01:10 PM

Jan 17

their restoration.

I recently came across a brilliant article that traces the steady deterioration of the interational legal order through the last several decades.

We once were "a nation of laws, not of men," but too many of us have become so tribalized that we focus exclusively on us vs. them and will howl about crimes on the other side while shrugging off those on our own.

The result is our current "might is right" ethos in which our President can kidnap the leader of a foreign country, openly declare that it's in order to take the country's oil, and the MSM barely whispers a word about the 29 violations of applicable US and international laws committed.

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Cover up..... Lovie777 Jan 17 #1

DOJ is a political entity now bucolic_frolic Jan 17 #2

It has been for the better part of a year now. MLWR Jan 17 #15

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Asking myself the same question Pachamama Jan 17 #9

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Time for US citizens to understand justice, law and order, and the Constitution are no longer in play. sinkingfeeling Jan 17 #5

And nevertheless to insist on and fight for snot Jan 17 #23

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Everyday that passes IS a criminal violation underpants Jan 17 #7

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