Edit: By “overthrow” I mean an actual attempt to topple the government, not wandering around aimlessly in a building for 4 hours stealing furniture.
If you actually oppose power you would almost certainly be FBI’d long before you could ever get to a position where you could conceivably stage a coup.
Being barred from election is a very quaint punishment for leading a failed coup.
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nah we don't need to support this one. no one should have the power to give themselves legal immunity.
While I agree with you that there is no need to support Lukashenko uncritically, the crucial context that both you and the outraged west are missing that such immunities are pretty much standard in in most western and liberal countries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_immunity#Immunity_of_government_leaders
parliamentary immunity being a bad idea that western nations do doesn't mean everybody else should do it too. It just means the critique shouldn't come from the state department.
i'd also be very surprised if they didn't already have a basic version of it, but i'm not a belarussian lawyer
It means that being selectively outraged that he's doing it is pointless. Why only get worked up over a systemic problem as soon as it's done by enemies of the western NATO aligned consensus?
i'm against it here too, but it only usually comes up when we're talking about holding police accountable within the liberal system.
Political leaders are not police officers
analogies aren't literal
I think political leaders and police officers are very distinct things and bad analogies
shut up nerd
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Yeah but what he’s doing here doesn’t seem any more unique than existing laws in any country.
the lifelong parliament seat is kinda different and pretty wack
a bit too pinochety
Still, it is not that different from British life peers or Italian senators for life, institutions that are never covered in this way by the media outlets who are now clutching their pearls over Lukashenko.
Life peers have the closest thing to no political power at all. The Lord's only purpose these days is to delay legislation and force review of bills.
i simply take it for granted that no state is worthy of support. Having done so, I can proceed to adequately criticize the propaganda my own government feeds me about other governments.