3:57 With respect, this is part of what I'd call the "Arab-American disconnect", wherein "middle class" (READ: better-off proletarians and petit bourgeois) Arabs push -- probably mostly unknowingly -- "American Dream" claptrap like "due process" as if that's even actually a thing. No, "prisoner" doesn't imply there was any justice in the imprisonment. As someone in the process of appealing a cop-Crown railroad against me, which is to say I've already been found guilty by some clown judge, I find the host's comment uninformed and somewhat offensive. Remember, European law is not coterminous with morality or justice...often quite the opposite!
Just to add on, this doesn't preclude abduction. Rather, maybe certain people should consider how many people in other carceral contexts are also abducted by an enemy state, more or less.
This is so incredibly useful and needed. Thank you, Noura, Bassam, and Ziad!
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3:57 With respect, this is part of what I'd call the "Arab-American disconnect", wherein "middle class" (READ: better-off proletarians and petit bourgeois) Arabs push -- probably mostly unknowingly -- "American Dream" claptrap like "due process" as if that's even actually a thing. No, "prisoner" doesn't imply there was any justice in the imprisonment. As someone in the process of appealing a cop-Crown railroad against me, which is to say I've already been found guilty by some clown judge, I find the host's comment uninformed and somewhat offensive. Remember, European law is not coterminous with morality or justice...often quite the opposite!
Just to add on, this doesn't preclude abduction. Rather, maybe certain people should consider how many people in other carceral contexts are also abducted by an enemy state, more or less.