Merkel Is Getting Me All Hot And Bothered

[gaelic cowboy]

This is absurd though. If the government's ability to enforce law and order equals conquest, then the whole idea of government is incompatible with freedom, since government without power is nothing.

Is not government enforecment of it's own standards by definition a conquest if one half of the community is opposed to being under it's continued rule.

Specifically how you define conquest matters not a jot to Gerry Adams thats for sure naturally Sinn Fein see enforcement of British law as an attempt to continue partition hence the conquest idea.

It's not that government cannot use force to imose it's will, it is that peoples idea of what is and isnt conquest have different meanings depending on place, history etc etc.

To purely frame it in terms of sovereign states implies that people who historically have never had a soverign state can not be conquered.

Abroiginal people the world over would naturally raise there eyebrows at such a narrow definition.