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It's nice that people were able to adapt their ancient tribal family-based justice system to survive their endless civil war, but I'd prefer to live in a nation with civil services, police, a strong military, and a well developed constitution and judiciary.
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Well, that's just your western cultural predjudices showing in your stated preference. If you read the article, you'll see that they have their own form of civil services and self-police. OK, a strong military would have been nice before western nations started making rules which escalated traditional tribal disagreements into ENDLESS CIVIL WAR, but where's the need for a developed constitution and judiciary if they are taking care of things on a local level?

To bring this back around, our civil services, police, strong military, well-developed constitution and judiciary apparently result in police state tactics like those expressed during the Tucson Tuesday Night Ride. Good on you for living here if that's what you're into.