Habeas corpus = produce the body alive or dead. There's no 3rd option. Alive? Bring him to court so he can be seen. Dead? Release him for burial. Saying ‘the doctor won't let us move him" doesn't confirm he's alive, doesn't say where he is, doesn't let anyone independent see him
He has threatened us with riot gear, admitted the goal is protecting one man from accountability & cited the world's most famous example of leaving power as a reason to never leave. Bro has made three wild statements in one post & still ends with “ this isn't personal." 🤦
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His post is unhinged! It has threats of state violence for peaceful assembly. Justifies staying in power to avoid accountability. Claims economic plans can’t survive power transfer. Also Mandela served 1 term & walked away. He’s literally the global symbol for relinquishing power
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How do people keep forgetting Kaunda?! He made us a one-party state claiming only he could keep us united & the country couldn't survive without him. Well we voted him out in '91 & didn't collapse so it was just a lie. Also ending his rule is the only reason UPND exists today
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Yes we’re not a banana republic because if we were, a lawful, police notified march would be branded as ‘chaos’ & ‘disarray’ & churches/civil society would be warned to stick to their mandate. But we haven’t done any of these things so it’s ok
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Borrow & burden the kids or get taxed more is a false choice - citizens still pay for both. Also celebrating domestic revenue financing when it’s being done by PAYE, VAT & other levies instead of copper exports is celebrating citizens footing the bill so the mines don’t have to
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This is a man nobody voted for arguing that voting is overrated and I bet you the irony is lost on him 😂
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UK PM is easily removed by Parliament-Liz Truss lasted 49 days. The PM is also not head of state & doesn’t control the army so will we adopt these also? And the US was so alarmed that FDR stayed for so long that the minute he died they introduced 22nd amendment & never went back
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We’ve already run his experiment. It was called the one-party state, zero elections for 19 years & instead of becoming Dubai we got empty shelves instead. Also comparing elections to colonialism is so backwards. What resembles colonial rule is having a leader you can’t vote out
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Eish I don’t know man look at Museveni he scrapped term limits in 2005 and 20 years on Ugandans have failed to vote him out and every election widely condemned as rigged. He even nicely went on to scrap age limit in 2017 😂
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Saying ‘ just vote them out’ works if elections are trustworthy. Right now the term limit is the only backstop against an election system that can be abused by the incumbent to stay in power. Only when we have truly credible elections can we possibly discuss term limit removal
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Hollowing out the opposition then gloating you can ‘declare yourself winner’ because no one's left to run is like the arsonist blaming the house for burning. A ballot with only one name isn't a mandate - it’s just a one-party state with better PR
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The law is supposed to stand in a government's way. That’s its entire job. A healthy response to a law that constrains your power isn't "amend the law", it's "reconsider whether we should be doing the thing the law forbids”
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‘They're different’ is not an argument for a separate ministry. Everything which is why departments exist & can be created under existing ministries . By her logic no number of ministries is ever too high - you can just say "ah but these two things are slightly different."
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