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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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[–] theposterformerlyknownasgood@hexbear.net 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] theposterformerlyknownasgood@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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?

[–] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

i'm against it here too, but it only usually comes up when we're talking about holding police accountable within the liberal system.

[–] Bay_of_Piggies@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Political leaders are not police officers

[–] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Bay_of_Piggies@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

I think political leaders and police officers are very distinct things and bad analogies