History tells us this always works.
This law proves that he is innocent of all wrongdoing. :P
Only innocent people make laws like this.
Any leader who has to sign legislation stating they have lifelong immunity from prosecution, probably needs to be prosecuted for the rest of their long life.
Or, sometimes, their artificially truncated life
I wonder what other modern politicians are doing that, or are promising to do it if they get elected?
Trump: you can DO that?
Sure! You just think it. Like how he unclassified all those documents. With His Mind.
He claims it was already done… let’s see how that plays out.
Also your opponent might just forego pretence and summarily execute you when they catch you or claim themself president and be immune to consequences and imprison you anyway.
He thought he can only do it on “day one”
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Last time I checked, Hunter Biden isn’t the President, so why would we care what he thinks?
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Ah, no wonder you are a former mod.
Sounds like a sign of weakness, tbh.
He’s been in power for a very long time and hasn’t needed this before.
Totally the kinda stuff you do when you’ve been well behaved
And that’s how assassination becomes a national hobby.
I mean there was this old Italian guy that tried that a few thousand years ago. I can’t remember how it ended.
I mean there was this old Italian guy that tried that a few thousand years ago. I can’t remember how it ended.
With his adopted son as dictator. Not the best example.
He was also recognized as a god by the Roman state after his death as a stern lesson to all those aspiring dictators out there.
That sounds good and all on paper, but it’s really only as binding as the people that come in after him are willing to let it be. I can imagine a law being passed later on just repealing this law and he’s right back to square one, assuming he doesn’t just hold onto power until he dies and/or Russia doesn’t annex Belarus.
“But… but but… I wrote it on a paper, official aper with my signature you have to follow the laaaw!”
I mean, this is the guy whose dream job is Russian Colonel.
Head of state of a theoretically sovereign nation, appears to genuinely aspire to… Being a colonel. One step above what his rank used to be.
The thing about laws, is that all it needs to remove them is another law…
Also: when the law is unjust, the just break the law.
I see lynch mobs in his future. Probably not soon, but eventually.
Fuck it. I declare myself King of Belarus. Luka will hang by his balls tonight at midnight.
Where were you when Eran Morad became King of Belarus
I was on Lemmy, reading a comment by Eran Morad.
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Oh well in that case I grant myself immunity as well from any future prosecution.
That was easy!
I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!!!
Very nice! That is a good one! /borat voice
Totally good and normal 👍
The behind the scenes in Belarus and Russia must be going worse than anyone knows if he feels the need to do this.
Well, Belarus was already almost in a state of revolution when the russian army came to save Lukachenko. Now the russian army is kinda busy with other stuff
He knows he’s fucked up and that the writing is on the wall for him. Putin is on borrowed time and so is he.
He won’t be prosecuted in court anyway. It’s probably going to be a trial of the ratatatat-tat style like Ceaucescu’s. All this does is show how pathetic Lukashenko really is.
