For at least ten years, the Chinese Communist Party has been abducting its overseas citizens on EU territory and forcibly returning them to China - violating the rule of law and public security in Europe - a new report finds.
  • 420blazeit69 [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    35·
    8 months ago

    I mean, that wasn’t an abuction or kidnapping. There are countless actions that are legal when the government does them but criminal if done by a private citizen. In many cases there’s probable cause to make an arrest, but the person is later cleared, which sounds like it happened to you. That doesn’t make the arrest illegal, much less kidnapping.

    This isn’t a technical point, either. Mischaracterizing lawful government conduct as criminal is exactly what this report is attempting to do, and we shouldn’t do it ourselves.

    • booty [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      44·
      8 months ago

      I mean, that wasn’t an abuction or kidnapping.

      It was exactly both of those things, and I don’t understand why you are the second person to reply to me under the mistaken impression that abduction and kidnapping are only possible when they are done illegally. Where are you getting this nonsense from?

      • 420blazeit69 [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        44·
        8 months ago

        Where are you getting this nonsense from?

        The law. Yes, abduction and kidnapping are only possible when they are done illegally. Illegality is a crucial part of what those terms mean.

        You’re essentially making the libertarian “tax is theft” argument: it would be criminal if I did it to you, so it must be criminal when the government does it to you.

        • booty [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
          33·
          8 months ago

          Illegality is a crucial part of what those terms mean.

          No dude, it isn’t. At all. You literally have it backwards. The law uses these terms because they are English terms with meanings. The law doesn’t give them their meanings.

            • booty [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
              33·
              8 months ago

              There is no legal way to kidnap someone.

              There are a wide variety of legal ways to kidnap someone. Such as the one I described which happened to me.

              • 420blazeit69 [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
                12·
                8 months ago

                How is this logic different from the article’s? You’re both calling a legal arrest you don’t like “kidnapping.”

                See also: a libertarian saying “of course you can legally steal, it’s called taxes!”

                • booty [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
                  32·
                  8 months ago

                  Why are you bootlicking? The US government doesn’t define common English words and their usage, and it’s very weird that you seem to think that the fact that they have control over the land means that they are incapable of committing violence against people. What the government goons I am describing did to me were acts of state-sanctioned violence in which I was taken under threat of physical harm to a location I did not want to go to and held against my will despite having done absolutely nothing to deserve violence being inflicted upon me. People with fucking souls call that abduction/kidnapping, where is your soul?