From: atropos@mac.com   
      
   On Jan 9, 2026 at 7:52:01 AM PST, "moviePig"  wrote:   
      
   > On 1/8/2026 10:57 PM, BTR1701 wrote:   
   >>  On Jan 8, 2026 at 7:30:33 PM PST, "moviePig"  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>  On 1/8/2026 9:48 PM, BTR1701 wrote:   
   >>>>    On Jan 8, 2026 at 6:31:36 PM PST, "Rhino"    
   >>>>    wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>>    On 2026-01-08 9:16 p.m., super70s wrote:   
   >>>>>>      Trump is also deploying forces against his own protesters.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>>      Looks like things are tough all over for authoritarian leaders   
   lately.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>    Incredible. Iran is literally shaking off nearly 50 years of Islamist   
   >>>>>    occupation and you are seeing close parallels with   
   >>>>>    democratically-elected Trump. If the protesters are successful, this   
   >>>>>    will be as big as the fall of the Berlin Wall and you have to try to   
   >>>>>    score partisan points....    
   >>>>   
   >>>>    Not only that, he's not even getting the points right.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>    It's Tampon Tim Walz that's spinning up the Minnesota National Guard   
   and   
   >>>>    threatening to deploy the military against federal law enforcement   
   >>>> officers   
   >>>>    for the egregious sin of enforcing valid, democratically passed and   
   >>>>    constitutionally tested immigration law.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>    For years the Left has demanded that the government literally ignore   
   >>>> the law   
   >>>>    with regard to illegal immigration and now we're seeing how far they're   
   >>>>    willing to take those demands.   
   >>>   
   >>>  We're biased to "ignore the law" to favor the individual.  It's not new.   
   >>   
   >>  Then why do we arrest people for DUI?   
   >   
   > For the same reason(ing) we arrest drunks firing pistols at the moon. In   
   > such instances, we're favoring not impersonal government statute, but   
   > individuals who happen to be in the immediate vicinity.   
      
   So we're only concerned about the victims of crime if the happen to be within   
   shouting distance?   
      
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