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Peter Hitchens

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Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@tomdiserens. Nobody likes the rule of law when it gets in their way. Yanukovych was lawlessly and violently removed *after* he had agreed to major retreats and early elections (which the putschists must have feared they might lose). There was no risk of him becoming Lukashenko. — PolitiTweet.org

Tom Diserens @tomdiserens

@ClarkeMicah @Grippo77 I think treating the rule of law like some kind of ultimate value when your homeland is at r… https://t.co/NI2VNbxEUT

Posted Feb. 9, 2023

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Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@ben_machell. It is not really a parallel. The death penalty is a *punishment* imposed, after a trial, on a person convicted of a heinous crime. The things you mention are not. (I also think it quite hard to show much of a parallel between forced sterilisation and an IQ test). — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Feb. 9, 2023

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Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@tomdiserens. I am not. It often threatens the real safeguards of liberty, the rule of law and the freedoms of thought, speech, and assembly. But the 'West' claims to treasure it, so it looks a bit silly when it allows it to be trampled in the mud, and doesn't object. — PolitiTweet.org

Tom Diserens @tomdiserens

@ClarkeMicah I thought you weren't much of a fan of universal suffrage democracy either

Posted Feb. 9, 2023