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by jk20 2168 days ago
Even people in concentration camps went through legal proceedings of sorts. See e.g. the infamous Article 58 of Soviet penal code.

You can always tweak law to make criminal out of anyone inconvenient. Wasn't Assange's consensual sex relegated to rape?

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> You can always tweak law to make criminal out of anyone inconvenient.

And this would be immoral and if you are suggesting the US is doing this you would need to actually back that up.

> Wasn't Assange's consensual sex relegated to rape?

Even if it was, that is not an example of tweaking the law to make a criminal out of anyone inconvenient, it is a case of tweaking the truth to fit the definition of something which is a crime, and should be a crime.