In clear text this means that acts which under normal circumstances would be illegal, become legal under Customary Law, as the rule of conventional law is not any more operative. This struggle for legitimacy should not be underestimated, for one must remember that legitimacy cannot be assured only with coercion, it must in the long run be accepted willingly by the subjects. And when authorites are slowly undermining their very legitimacy by refusing to apply the rule of law, their power base diminishes. Thus, one of the vulnerable spots of Power is its moral bankrupcy. I do not believe in dissidents' movements abilities to challenge The System by using the same weapons as The System does.
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