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Laws, whether good or bad, should be obeyed and enforced.  The bad laws can be challenged and overturned given enough time and resources, and sometimes they are.  But the enforcement of law should include some discretion and not be absolute in all cases, I think.  Recently, a French lady was visiting family in Canada and went for a jog along the beach in British Columbia and inadvertently crossed the border.  She wasn't carrying her passport, probably a simple oversight when you're out jogging, and was nabbed by US Border Patrol agents.  This seems like a situation that could easily be resolved by a few phone calls and the delivery of the passport, but no.  She was detained and sent to a facility more than a hundred miles away and held for two weeks.  The letter of the law may have been enforced but the spirit of the law got clobbered with a great waste of manpower and time.  There's probably more to the story but I think the situation was very poorly handled.

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Mr. Beagles would know the names of the clowns in the national circus if he followed the events more closely or dug deeper into the stories.  But the doesn't, and that's fine.  I shouldn't waste so much time on this nonsense but I'm curious as hell as I watch history being made before my eyes.

I don't trust any single news source because they all put their own spin on events.  Remember that G7 Summit photo where it looked like Angela Merkel was leaning on the table scolding Trump?  That was part of series of photos and others showed everyone smiling like they were having a good time.  Different photos from different angles tell different stories.  We are only fed bits and pieces from the media and the full picture is seldom revealed but that's the nature of the game.  Exactly what the game is, I don't know.