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Emeritus Prof Christopher May

Here's @davidallengreen making the crucial point that when Billionaires start saying Court orders can be ignored they are cutting away at the basis of their own wealth.... billionaires depend (for the most part) on the rule of law to maintain their wealth... without its just so much paper & possession (with no firm property rights attached)

So, without comprehensive legal compliance these billionaires suddenly starting looking vulnerable....

emptycity.substack.com/p/the-p

The Empty City - a law and polity blog · The paradox of the Billionaires saying that Court Orders have no value, for without Court Orders there could not be BillionairesBy d. a. t. green

@ChrisMayLA6 @davidallengreen When they realise, they will start hiring mercenaries.

@mrundkvist @ChrisMayLA6 @davidallengreen Yes. I was thinking private armies. How dystopian might this whole thing become?

@simoncarswell @ChrisMayLA6 @davidallengreen I think the Americans are safe as long as none of the billionaires becomes completely unhinged by ketamine abuse and is enabled by someone like, I don't know, an elderly narcissist in the White House. Oh, hey, wait a minute...

@ChrisMayLA6 @davidallengreen
Like, the law ever applied to them?
The law is there to keep the masses in their place, not for order and never for justice, selective in enforcement and laughed at by wealth
Tell me another one
That was good

@ChrisMayLA6 however, if they have a compliant police/military/paramilitary force on their side, it becomes a bit more ... interesting

@ChrisMayLA6 @davidallengreen
A similar argument could be made about Members of Congress who support ignoring Court orders are saying Congress has a very limited role, if any and so could be disbanded.