re: #253 gocart mozart

MbS did this as a pretense to seize power. Saudi shieks were all corrupt so he had them arrested, some were killed and some forfieted their assets. Putin too. it’s an old tactic

It’s a strongman tactic as old as the idea of laws and corruption. Identify your political rivals, accuse them of “corruption” that hurts “the people/state/etc,” then use such to justify their incarceration and/or execution. Some regimes might go through the trouble of holding show trials where the accused are informed of their “crimes,” “evidence” of such introduced to shock and horrify the onlookers, and persons scared shitless of standing in the docket brought in as “witnesses” to said “crimes,” before summary judgement is handed out. Others just skip to having them drug out into the street and shot to save on the paperwork.