To the dismay of victims and viewers, this appeared to be a breakdown of the rule of law passively sanctioned by law enforcement officers.
The sleepy opposition may be showing signs, at last, of stirring it warns of a "serious violation of the constitution and a breakdown of the rule of law".
New Zealand has suspended aid to Nauru's justice system over the breakdown of the rule of law on the island nation.
A Saudi Arabian diplomat was kidnapped from the port city of Aden on Wednesday, in another sign of the breakdown of the rule of law, especially in the south.
The case of Mr. Lam and four other men connected with the publisher, Mighty Current Media, has stoked concerns in Hong Kong about the potential breakdown of the rule of law in the semiautonomous territory because of influence from the mainland.
The government assailed the United States Congress for passing the Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act, which urges President Bush to deny visas and freeze the assets of those "responsible for violence and the breakdown of the rule of law in Zimbabwe".
Amnesty has produced a unique portrait of a world which, like a Bosch phantasm, is panoramic, almost aloof, chronicling the ordeals and wasted lives of men and women trapped in the breakdown of the rule of law.
All expressed a deep concern over the breakdown of the rule of law in Guatemala and the climate of violence that prevailed during the military's rule of Guatemala.
As irresponsible as that might be from the point of view of individual House Republicans, the fact is that their party has set up an incentive structure that pushes them in the "post-policy" direction of choosing symbolic wins at the cost of substantive losses.This puts the question of a breakdown of the rule of law in a different perspective.
