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You're asking America to let you take away their rights and privileges, and your argument, as the person that would be holding the power is that you're willing to take the risk to your rights and privileges?
The king's sales pitch for why his peasants should be ok with handing over even more rights and civil liberty, is that he (the king) is willing to take the non-existent risk to his own rights, in exchange for even more authority and power being given to him.
And somehow, the king having even more domestic spying power is for the benefit of the king's military... Who are currently fighting a foreign war that was started by the king despite having no support from the peasants.
Setting the unjust foreign wars aside for just a min, it seems kind of important to ask why a king (and his military) would somehow benefit from increased domestic authority?
It's not like he views the rights and liberties of the American people living under his ~~regime~~ administration as some kind of threat. Or like he considers American citizens to be hostile enemies..., right? 😅
He’s already declared his political opponents and the majority of us that don’t share his ideals as terrorists and hostile enemies, signed a EO to that effect September 2025.