I hate it when people use the term "rule of law" to justify authoritarian behaviour. Or when they say "No one is above the law".
Is it not funny that the people who use those terms are often if not always the ones breaking them, if not using loop wholes to get around laws that everyone else has to follow?
@TheGnuMaster to make such statements one must accept that at one time slavery was the rule of law. As was segregation. As was miscegenation. Homosexuality was illegal between consenting adults. (just so I am not just usign racial examples) but there more.
Just because something is illegal, doesn't mean it should be. Just because something is lawful, doesn't mean it is right.
@Absinthe I agree with you.
@Absinthe To clarify. I was refering to the situation in Hong Kong for example. Where the HK chief executive keeps talking about law and order.
Also in the case of Theresa May when she was attacking Julian Assange saying "no one is above the law" even though many of the actions of the british government and its secret spy organisations on a daily basis are "above the law" and can't be questioned despite the publications of Wikileaks proving severe wrong doing.
@TheGnuMaster I still agree. You made very good points. I was merely trying to expand on them, with some historical examples
@TheGnuMaster Then I agree with you! :)