Hooooo wow.  There are a very few times in recorded history of official Civilizational procedures where somebody has declared an exception to an exception inside an exception.  To be specific, it has happened exactly eleven times, or at this point, twelve.  This is going in all the textbooks, not that they had any real hope of staying out of those anyways.

Hooooo wow.  There are a very few times in recorded history of official Civilizational procedures where somebody has declared an exception to an exception from an exception.  To be specific, it has happened exactly eleven times, or at this point, twelve.  This is going in all the textbooks, not that they had any real hope of staying out of those anyways.

Hooooo wow.  There are a few times in the recorded history of official very serious predesigned Civilizational procedures where somebody has declared an exception to an exception from an exception.  To be specific, it has happened exactly eleven times, or at this point, twelve.  This is going in all the textbooks, not that they had any real hope of staying out of those anyways.

Hooooo wow.  There are a few times in the recorded history of Very Serious predesigned Civilizational procedures where somebody has declared an exception to an exception from an exception.  To be specific, it has happened exactly eleven times, or at this point, twelve.  This is going in all the textbooks, not that they had any real hope of staying out of those anyways.