I just read it. I've never really thought about SG like that before, but it makes sense. I have to wonder how SG should have gone to keep within the law. At what point did it become a war? As I understand it, they couldn't really take the time to stop during the movie before killing Ra, but should the government have announced the StarGate and the murder of an planetary ruler when they returned? Maybe after another system lord (Apophis?) came through the gate and kidnapped some of their soldiers, they should have filled in the public? I'm not sure how quickly things happened at the beginning of the series. If they didn't go through the StarGate and took the time to conform to the law first, would they have had time to sort out everything with the public and other countries?