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if we were working in a civil law tradition, mojo, then what you say would settle the matter i guess: but this is a common law tradition, and so questions settled at the level of precedent for the moment are nevertheless active as political questions. the production of a legal black hole, the matter of creating a second justice system within the american justice system, and using the "war on terror" as the pretext for it is there for all to see. this administration has created such a hole. whether your reading of selected elements from case law supports that view or not is secondary to the fact that it is a political problem, that there are other views on the matter, and that no number of arbitrary quotes will make that go away.
what is more, you do not address the main point in the post.
further, i do not work on american history. so your assumptions are, in your language, moot about what i should and should not know.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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