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Bettina's avatar

Superb essay!

"The right is conditional, and they have broken the conditions." Exactly so! With rights come responsibilities - this is what we, as English people, have learnt from the cradle. It is the unspoken agreement between us all and it has been trashed by socialism.

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Barry Lederman, “normie”'s avatar

You tackled beautifully an universal issue that shouldn’t be avoided.

In US, we have many times written laws but sometimes it takes guts to apply them. In today’s essay, Jeff Childers: “… In a case that could redefine the reach of presidential war powers, the Fifth Circuit is the first to weigh whether the President can invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 (AEA) —a dusty relic of the John Adams era— to summarily deport alleged members of a Venezuelan street gang. The law, originally designed to empower the president to detain or expel nationals of hostile nations during wartime or invasion, has been used only sparingly in U.S. history— mostly during declared wars.

But Trump’s Justice Department argued that the gang Tren de Aragua, which it claims has infiltrated 40 states and is tied to Venezuela’s Maduro regime, constitutes a modern-day invasion.”

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