The United States: Our president cannot be held accountable for his crimes in a US court of law.
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The United States: Our president cannot be held accountable for his crimes in a US court of law. A president has absolute immunity.
Also The United States: Now watch us kidnap a president of a totally different country, to hold him accountable for his crimes… in a US court of law.
@randahl But he could be held to account in an International Court - if he can kidnap Venezuela's President and try him in US courts than surely any other country could detain him on a visit and try him for war crimes and crimes against humanity - not least for this action of aggression against a sovereign nation - no matter how bad the President of Venezuela is.
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@taatm @randahl
"Here's the fucked part about the "Maduro is bad" discourse - when have we ever done a regime change operation that improved anyone's lives? When? Which time did we take out the "bad guy" and the people we were "liberating" were like "thank you Yankee swine; you saved us!" When has the general population of a country we regime changed thanked us for bombing them?"
-AnarchoNinaLet's ask the Iraqis or Afghans.
@clintruin @taatm @randahl
It was quite an effort, but the USA was part of a regime change forced upon Germany last century.
Your Republicans have learned much from that time. -
@clintruin @taatm @randahl
It was quite an effort, but the USA was part of a regime change forced upon Germany last century.
Your Republicans have learned much from that time. -
@clintruin @taatm @randahl
It was quite an effort, but the USA was part of a regime change forced upon Germany last century.
Your Republicans have learned much from that time.@Photo55 @clintruin @randahl
I’m British
FYI
And I’m very European
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The United States: Our president cannot be held accountable for his crimes in a US court of law. A president has absolute immunity.
Also The United States: Now watch us kidnap a president of a totally different country, to hold him accountable for his crimes… in a US court of law.
@randahl the sequel to “Air Force One” (1997) would be so different:
Gary Oldman was imprisoned, got out, won the election of 2024, is now POTUS and travels to other countries to kidnap their presidents with his team of thugs on Air Force One
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@randahl
He wasn’t President, he lost, he just kept the title. Much like Putin. Venezuela was a mafia state under him.Trump being a dick is entirely separate, but don’t credit Maduro. If Trump did that to Putin I would applaud.
Why and how Trump did it is a grave concern, but Venezuela isn’t Greenland.
@taatm
Aah ... Only presidents etc we consider legitimate etcs.
There's a fault in that.Also, i've not paid the closest attention to Venezuela this century, but I don't recall any other person sworn in, enthroned, established, as president in his stead. And his was the arse upon the throne.
Conventionally, IANAL but I think that defines him as the leader with those immunities.The ICC/ICJ in den Hague might take a view if he was taken there.
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@Photo55 @clintruin @randahl
I’m British FYI
And I’m very European@taatm noted. So am I.
I think we would object to even people as lovely as the USAians taking our government heads away in order to plunder and burn more oil.
Granted Maduro is a less easy case, being thoroughly nasty, he is not worse than Putin. -
@clintruin @taatm @randahl
And us. It was nearly an all hands job. -
@rockiger @bufalo1973 @randahl
All slopes are slippery but that is not an excuse to not act.Also, I haven’t said Trump was right to do it. The question I have to ask everyone is, if that was Putin, would you say the same things?
I also hold that dictator types learn from inaction and by doing this Trump is more likely to take extreme measures elsewhere that are just all bad.
@taatm @rockiger @bufalo1973 @randahl When Trump crosses the line, Americans move the line to accommodate him. And then he crosses that one, so they move it again, and so on.
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The United States: Our president cannot be held accountable for his crimes in a US court of law. A president has absolute immunity.
Also The United States: Now watch us kidnap a president of a totally different country, to hold him accountable for his crimes… in a US court of law.
@randahl American conservatives are LYING when they say things like this. They don't mean it. It's all just propaganda. Pretty much 100% of what conservatives say is just self-serving propaganda, with no relationship to truth, forensics, facts, logic, or evidence.
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The United States: Our president cannot be held accountable for his crimes in a US court of law. A president has absolute immunity.
Also The United States: Now watch us kidnap a president of a totally different country, to hold him accountable for his crimes… in a US court of law.
@randahl that may bite Trump in the ass if the assigned judge used it as precedent in the Maduro case
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