Sun Tzu warns that power endures only while it is anchored to the Moral Law; once leaders cast aside the rules that make obedience honorable, they trade disciplined ranks for restless mobs. If a state voids habeas corpus and invents exile, it teaches its soldiers that orders shift with convenience; muddled commands breed hesitation and invite defeat. Cruelty toward captives squanders the chance to turn enemies into allies, stoking a fire that eventually scorches its keeper. In his logic, the strategy that wins is the one that leaves tomorrow’s field unpoisoned; the authority that survives is the one that restrains itself today so it can still command tomorrow.
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Thomas Mix
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When rulers decide that habeas corpus is dispensable, they confess that law itself is dispensable; if custody can rest on fiat, so can banishment. The shield that once protected every citizen becomes a sword that cuts according to whim, first against the despised, then against x.com/ronfilipkowski…
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