From the article: “If they can come for Richard they can come for anyone.” The whole point of the social compact is that the state is supposed to protect it's

From the article: “If they can come for Richard they can come for anyone.” The whole point of the social compact is that the state is supposed to protect it's citizens. That's the quid pro quo that legitimizes statehood. If a country extradites one of it's citizens after finding insufficient reason to prosecute, that's an entirely different quid pro quo.