Imagine that you are quietly sitting at home with your spouse reading The Signal when suddenly your security cameras show teams of armed and masked gunmen surrounding your residence. Flash-bang grenades go off and moments later, and in all the smoke and confusion, you and your spouse are handcuffed and blindfolded. In a flurry you both are air-transported to a South Dakota jail. 

Finally, before a South Dakota judge two days later, you have learned that, although never having stepped into South Dakota, you were driving your car on Interstate 5 when you exceeded the South Dakota speed limit. The charges read to you indicate that you violated South Dakota law and thus you were extradited by force to be held pending trial. 

Even worse, you happen to be the governor of California (congratulations) and our state is now without its leader. 

South Dakota in this scenario decided to extend its “sovereignty” beyond its borders and applied its speed limit to you while in another state.  

In early January this year the White House reports that U.S. special covert operations landed in Venezuela, presumably shot their way into a military complex at Fuerte Tiuna, Caracas, and took President Nicolás Maduro and his wife........

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