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Or if you hunt dinosaurs, sic semper tyrannosaurus

I obviously cannot tell what he meant, but in context I think that "tyrannus" makes more sense.

As opposed to the Latin expression?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sic_semper_tyrannis

Legitimately asking. I'm not sure why it would be anything other than "Thus always to tyrants".

Latin isn't a set of cast-in-stone strings of words. While sic semper tyrannis is very well known, sic semper tyrannus is also grammatical.

"Rest in peace" is well known, but "Rest in pieces" is neither unhead of, nor wrong. It's a riff on a well known phrase.

Same here: "Thus always (do) tyrants"

As I said, I think it makes more sense here. I think he wanted to call the UK government tyrants, not the spied-upon people.

Gotcha. Thanks for the explanation. I interpreted it more along the lines of the petition as a form of rebellion against the government, which I think would warrant sic temper tyrannis, correct?

(Maybe the poster will weigh in and save us the trouble of deciphering his intent :)

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