How does the author's tangent on kangaroos at the beginning of the essay relate to the essay's content? Why is it appropriate for Myanmar's arrests of political dissidents to take place in the dead of night?
Why do political dissidents in Myanmar keep a plastic bag containing blankets, clothes, medicine, toiletries, etcetera?
Do political protesters in Myanmar expect the government to just let them peacefully oppose the governments views? What do they expect will happen to them?

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the passage can be best described as: "the british legislature extended an unwarranted jurisdiction".

we can say that because the text clearly states how the people of the colonies warned the british about their excessive desire to rule over them, without taking into consideration the difficulties their brothers had experienced in america: they struggled to establish the colonies, to adapt to new types of weather, fight with the natives, etc., and how they now see (or then saw) the only way out was to cut all ties with the british, since they ignored the people's petitions.