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The problem is that your statement "all is legal for the sovereign" is just plain false according to the most widely accepted definition of legality.

By propagating it as if it were true, you are in fact playing into the hands of those who want society to bow to a different notion of legality - one where the rule of law has been eliminated. That is, by writing what you write, you are needlessly conceding ground to the bad guys.

I know it's tempting to play (or be?) the jaded cynic. But it seems to me that if we want to keep politicians and government officials accountable to the laws, then a necessary (though of course not sufficient) condition for that is that we insist on calling their actions illegal when they are illegal.



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