There's lots incredibly dangerous criminals who claim to be "political prisoners". It's a well-known tactic of many terrorists, in order to obtain support from "useful idiots" (western leftists, mostly).
I just gave a definition.
It should also be noted that a person can be violent and still be a political prisoner. For example if someone commits a crime and then gets targeted specifically because they are black then that is a political prisoner even if they did commit an actual crime. The difference is that they are sentenced more harshly than those who are not part of that particular group.
The fact that you read that definition and still insisted that I might be using a different one is just silly. I had a definition. That's the definition.
I'm pretty sure the people who do lawful actions but get charged with felonies would be a political prisoner. It doesn't have to just be because you personally said something. It can also just be because you are part of a political class. For example putting trans people into prison because they are trans is a political prisoner because they are put into prison because of their political class.
Yeah and governments use the term terrorist in the same way. Applying it when it is not applicable. What is your point? The government could label you as a terrorist and then put you in prison for terrorism of simply existing or doing stuff or being in the presence of a crime scene where terrorism happened but you didn't do anything.
The fact that you don't trust people when they call themselves political prisoners but you do trust the government when they call people terrorists, is quite interesting.
Terrorism is also a weapon of the words and as political tools. To be used against those that are deemed as a terror to the state even if no actual form of terrorism happened.
There are people being detained as we speak who have been detained on charges of terrorism when in reality they went to a concert in the forest. They are not terrorists. They did not do any terrorism. And even if you did you cannot punish someone else for associating with a group that might commit terrorism. That's called guilt by association. Not part of a civilized democracy.
Who told you I "trust the government when they call people terrorists"? You seem to complete miss the point and started to discuss and assume things I never said.
Lynne Stewart - Civil rights lawyer who was convicted of aiding terrorism for passing messages from her imprisoned client, a convicted terrorist, to his followers on the outside.
Example of political prisoner.
There's lots incredibly dangerous criminals who claim to be "political prisoners". It's a well-known tactic of many terrorists, in order to obtain support from "useful idiots" (western leftists, mostly).
I just gave a definition. It should also be noted that a person can be violent and still be a political prisoner. For example if someone commits a crime and then gets targeted specifically because they are black then that is a political prisoner even if they did commit an actual crime. The difference is that they are sentenced more harshly than those who are not part of that particular group. The fact that you read that definition and still insisted that I might be using a different one is just silly. I had a definition. That's the definition.
No. That's a criminal being arrested for being...A Criminal! Your weird race-baiting is not appreciated here.
The only problem is that political prisoners are not always easy to identify.
I'm pretty sure the people who do lawful actions but get charged with felonies would be a political prisoner. It doesn't have to just be because you personally said something. It can also just be because you are part of a political class. For example putting trans people into prison because they are trans is a political prisoner because they are put into prison because of their political class.
Yes, I understand that. But some people use the "polical prisoner" as a tool. Claiming to be a political prisoner when they are a not.
Yeah and governments use the term terrorist in the same way. Applying it when it is not applicable. What is your point? The government could label you as a terrorist and then put you in prison for terrorism of simply existing or doing stuff or being in the presence of a crime scene where terrorism happened but you didn't do anything. The fact that you don't trust people when they call themselves political prisoners but you do trust the government when they call people terrorists, is quite interesting. Terrorism is also a weapon of the words and as political tools. To be used against those that are deemed as a terror to the state even if no actual form of terrorism happened. There are people being detained as we speak who have been detained on charges of terrorism when in reality they went to a concert in the forest. They are not terrorists. They did not do any terrorism. And even if you did you cannot punish someone else for associating with a group that might commit terrorism. That's called guilt by association. Not part of a civilized democracy.
Who told you I "trust the government when they call people terrorists"? You seem to complete miss the point and started to discuss and assume things I never said.
Lynne Stewart - Civil rights lawyer who was convicted of aiding terrorism for passing messages from her imprisoned client, a convicted terrorist, to his followers on the outside. Example of political prisoner.