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Lost in the Aegean ...

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It may seem it was very long ago but ... In July 1934, the German jurist and political theorist Carl Schmitt, considered to have been the chief political theorist of national socialism, published in the Deutsche Juristen-Zeitung  (the journal of national socialist lawyers of which he was editor in chief of) an article that relates to his Political Theology and his theory of sovereignty [1] entitled "Der Führer schützt das Recht" (The Führer protects the Law), effectively justifying in it the murderous Night of the Long Knives by recognizing in Führer's sovereign authority the "highest form of administrative justice" ( höchste Form administrativer Justiz ).  I was reminded of this as I was thinking about how international treaties and legislation regarding refugee protection have been flouted by EU member states to the point that they are not worth the paper they have been printed on, or how our right to free movement is being curtailed by regimes of '