On Apr 15, 2019, at 11:51 AM, Phil Pugliese (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:

Hmmmm, sounds like 'Gitmo' doesn't it. A lot of folks claim that that's really just a 'political prison' don't they.

So, how you gonna' play the USA  w/ Obama as President?

After all, he wouldn't shut it down.

(Please don't say that "others wouldn't let him". If he *really* wanted to do it, he could've.)

Uhh, no, he couldn’t. Congress explicitly passed a law banning that. Had he done so anyway, he would have been subject to impeachment.

This is the difference between “Rule of Law” (in the US) and “Rule of Man”, which is the guiding legal principle of a feudal state like the 3I. Now if you want to continue to argue that the 3I couldn’t REALLY be a feudal state, you’re entirely welcome to continue, but canon says it is.

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Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
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