Comments by "craxd1" (@craxd1) on "Hearts and minds, how the British ran concentration camps in Malaya in the 1950s" video.

  1. I'm afraid that redefining words, or the manufacturing of new ones, lies squarely in the legal profession's lap. That is the attorney's job, they're wordsmiths, and they are to "interpret" the law, which they will try to read in many different ways to get their client off the hook. Judges do the same thing, when trying to bend a law to their liking. In the international community, they do this all the time to skirt laws or try to hide what they're doing.
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  2.  @msbecks7004  And those are the words, put together, that they try to bend or redefine. Why do you think the Supreme Court, in the US, keeps seeing the same suits being brought before them, over and over, but from different angles? In the US, why do they keep introducing legislation that is designed to skirt the Constitution and Bill of Rights, only to have them knocked down, time and time again, as unconstitutional? One attorney defends the new legislation, while the other argues against it. Many of the new words, today, that we're seeing pushed, to redefine or skirt the law, were birthed at ivy-league schools. Harvard's school of law is one such culprit.
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  3.  @holeephuc007  As an example, I've watched our legal eagles debate what the word, militia, means, even though it has a definition in law. In fact, it defines two separate groups of people, but the second group is always who they try to deny rights to. Sect. B definitions: (b)The classes of the militia are— (1)the organized militia, which consists of the National Guard and the Naval Militia; and (2)the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of the militia who are not members of the National Guard or the Naval Militia. Those who are not members of the National Guard or Naval Militia, the unorganized militia, are the common Joe, citizens of the US within one of the fifty states, who are of age. They changed the law to include both men and women, but if you are a citizen of one of the states, you are seen as a member of the unorganized militia, who can be called up to serve. They try to redefine this, of course, to deny firearms rights. It has been struck down, many times, by the Supreme Court.
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