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He isn't jailed in the embassy, he's escaping jail by hiding in the embassy.
by sleepybrett 10y ago
He isn't jailed in the embassy, he's escaping jail by hiding in the embassy.
- monocasa 10y agoHe's unable to leave without facing extremely stiff legal consequences. He is, at least, metaphorically jailed in the embassy.
- FireBeyond 10y agoConsequences of his own making. Don't make it out to be something forced upon him against his will.
- monocasa 10y agoCouldn't you make the same argument for nearly everyone who's jailed?
- roywiggins 10y agoIt's more like hiding in a friend's attic to avoid being arrested and claiming you're being imprisoned.
- monocasa 10y agoEven if the government knew that said friend was there and spent ~£10M on 24hr security so that he couldn't leave without being arrested?
- FireBeyond 10y agoIf there's a warrant for your arrest, and law enforcement knows that you're in a location, do they a) wait for your departure of the location (when they can't, as in the case of an embassy, obtain a warrant to forcibly enter), or b) shrug their shoulders and wander off, and say "I guess you beat us this time", a la crossing the County line in the Dukes of Hazzard? Now, I will absolutely grant you that the amount of manpower and money spent on such monitoring is ridiculous. But to act as though the government is imprisoning him against his will by attempting to enforce a legal warrant is ... disingenuous.