0 sats \ 5 replies \ @mallardshead 8 Mar 2023 \ parent \ on: Bukele makes an excellent point about US hypocrisy. Anyone got legit rebuttals? bitcoin
"Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safey."
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Eximpius 8 Mar 2023
Cause you know.. You sure can pursue life, liberty, and freedom when a gang is holding you hostage.
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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @Eximpius 8 Mar 2023
What liberty did they give up?
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @mallardshead 8 Mar 2023
The one that talks about no state depriving any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law? In the US it's the 4th and 14th amendments. In El Salvador I believe it's the judicial protection clause under their own constitution ratified in the 80s
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Eximpius 8 Mar 2023
So the corrupt government before him that was helping the gangs doesn't count I guess?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Eximpius 8 Mar 2023
Cause you know.. You sure can pursue life, liberty, and freedom when a gang is holding you hostage.
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