• @[email protected]OP
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    73 months ago

    The local police who are deferential to the judicial. That’s how and why they can arrest people. The executive does not decide this.

    Am I living in a universe where people just aren’t tought these things in school?

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      I don’t know what universe you’re living in, but it isn’t the normal one because you’re wrong.

      The local police are part of the executive branch of the local government. Not judicial.

      That fundamental lack of understanding goes a long way to explain why you keep delusionally insisting that judges can enforce the law.

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      Welcome to the constitutional sherrifs movement where they are the law. The only law. Where they chose what is legal and right. They are above any federal law, system, etc.

      Also, see: JD Vance saying trump can ignore the courts. And the numerous ‘signs your gov is authoritarian/fascist’ lists which include stacking/ignoring courts because, who is going to arrest the president? Especially when the supremacists/nationalists have been infiltrating police forces for well over a decade.

      The way things ought are no longer applicable.

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      103 months ago

      “In a room sit three great men, a king, a priest, and a rich man with his gold. Between them stands a sellsword, a little man of common birth and no great mind. Each of the great ones bids him slay the other two. ‘Do it,’ says the king, ‘for I am your lawful ruler.’ ‘Do it,’ says the priest, ‘for I command you in the names of the gods.’ ‘Do it,’ says the rich man, ‘and all this gold shall be yours.’ So tell me—who lives and who dies?”

      It sadly all comes down to who the police (and somewhere down the line the military) believe is right.

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          It’s not mine, it’s a quote from the book “A Clash of Kings” and subsequently the Game of Thrones TV show.

          Anyway the answer is just what I wrote. Power resides where men believe it resides. In the riddle, it’s entirely up to the sellsword which kind of power they value most.