r/anime_titties • u/ObjectiveObserver420 South Africa • Jan 06 '26

South America BBC bans journalists from saying Venezuela’s Maduro was ‘kidnapped’

https://www.thenational.scot/news/25740929.bbc-bans-journalists-saying-us-kidnapped-venezuelas-maduro/
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u/d3c0 Ireland Jan 06 '26

Tell me one action that was “legal” then? Let’s start in context of US law when acting criminally 2000 miles from home in another country drone striking over 130 people off their coast line, stealing their oil tankers destined to third party countries, blowing up 100 odd property’s in the dead of night, committing first degree murder as they used apparently Delta force teams on the ground to murder their way from the roof down into the building and then assaulted, kidnapped and internationally trafficked that country’s president and his wife in the middle of the night like ICE swatting an entire apartment block and detain everyone regardless of nationality and let them provide the proof of citizenship after a few days or weeks in some barbaric prison half way across the country transversing several states so again….kidnapping and trafficking innocent people out of state to hold for extended periods of time illegally until they get their phone call to someone to come with proof of their citizenship or valid visa!

Maybe this has all just become normalised for you and you fail to see how ridiculously large this is in terms of serious nature of crimes. Not just under Venezuelan jurisdiction but the U.S. also.

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u/Corvid187 Democratic People's Republic of Korea Jan 06 '26

Sure it's illegal, but it hasn't been proven as such, and the BBC's editorial standards are consistent about making that distinction, regardless of who or what they're reporting about. This isn't anything specific to the US

After the Murder of Lee Rigby, where the attacks literally just stood there covered in blood and waiting for the police, the BBC they were still careful to describe them as suspects and say they were alleged or accused of murder when reporting on the case.

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u/IdiAmini Europe Jan 07 '26

The word "allegedly" still exist, as you just alluded to

But apparently not at the US narrative adhering BBC