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Civil Liberties

mahatmakanejeeves

(62,735 posts) Tue Dec 15, 2020, 01:03 PM Dec 2020

Donny Ferguson 🗽 Retweeted

Think about it

If you allow the government to break the law during an emergency, they will create emergencies to break the law.

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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