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10-03-2016 5:20 AM 		Reply to: Message 1 by 1.61803
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Retrospective laws?
Sorry. I made a big mistake.
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10-03-2016 5:24 AM 		Reply to: Message 1 by 1.61803
09-29-2016 10:59 AM

Retrospective laws?
Not being a lawyer and all that.
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Can a country like the US make retrospective laws to be enforced today? Maybe it's a question for another thread?
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10-03-2016 8:54 AM 		Reply to: Message 14 by Dr Adequate
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Re: Retrospective laws?
Yeah, something is completely wrong doing that.
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When you do something, it's completely legal; then they change the laws and then it's illegal. Then a person who did legal things go to prison for doing something completely legal at the time they did it. Years ago.
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Marcellus: 'Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.'
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10-04-2016 8:47 AM 		Reply to: Message 19 by NoNukes
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Re: Retrospective laws?
Why pass those laws now if they don't change anything from before?
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10-05-2016 5:53 AM 		Reply to: Message 22 by NoNukes
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Re: Retrospective laws?
My response was:
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Why pass those laws now if they don't change anything from before?
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1. They pass laws now where civilian action can now be taken against the Governments allegedly involved in actions 15 years ago.
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2. Before these laws were passed, civilian action could not be taken.
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3. Now they can. 15 years later. Those are retrospective laws.
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10-06-2016 7:47 AM 		Reply to: Message 26 by Rrhain
10-06-2016 3:02 AM

Re: Retrospective laws?
Until now for this reason. And if we can do it on our end, what's to prevent Japan from suing us for the atomic bomb? Or Iraq for our invasion?
Or individual Germans suing the current US Government for blowing their homes into smitherines in some suburb of Darmstadt. 74 years ago.
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