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Comment by pstuart

10 days ago

The problem is the old man and his enablers have zero respect for the law, whereas the other team does (they are not above reproach but in this regard they are distinctly different).

This makes the fight unfair, as without law all we have is unbridled violence as a tool and that is a path to ruin for all.

> have zero respect for the law

They are simply enforcing a law that people have had every opportunity to democratically change in the decades since it just stopped being enforced properly, and yet they failed to secure a democratic mandate to do so.

Complaining from that position is far from being on a moral high ground.