What do you think about the police?

[FlatAssembler]

We can discuss whether the rule of law is always a good thing. Perhaps pharmaceutical companies making vaccines should not be equal in front of the law. But the rule of law would have undoubtedly made Irish Potato Famine far less severe.

But the rule of law WAS in place. There were laws limiting how much land Irish farmers could tenant, which crops they could grow, and what happened to that product. How is that not the rule of law?

Boru

Because it was almost a textbook example of institutional racism. There was no equality before the law. Laws that applied to Catholics did not apply to Brits.