Okay, so there’s this itsy-bitsy news item that’s making the blogging rounds. And everybody’s all “How dare they? Pissant goatf*cking Egyptians have the effrontery to issue warrants for people in this country? Nukes! Rubble!”
And I confess I had one of those moments myself, because Jesus. Egypt? How presumptuous do you have to be, to be a government?
That’s by no means an exhaustive list. Playing poker without paying the Danegeld and smoking weed are crimes against the US government, and they’ll frag any foreign government that tries to interfere with the wheels of American “justice.” Hey, blasphemy is a crime against the newly-enlightened government of Egypt. Who’re we to interfere, right?
Right?
That outdated, bothersome little obstruction known as the Bill of Rights has been successfully relegated to the historical dustbin…