• Placebonickname@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    Just to drive home the point on how horrible this person is being treated right now, This is exactly how terrorist in Afghanistan would’ve treated a person that had turned on Al-Qaeda or the Taliban. They isolate them. They don’t give them any information. They don’t give them the opportunity to know why they’ve been detained. They have no access to family members or to correspond with an attorney.

    After 24 hours, I bet that student was terrified out of his mind.

    This just isn’t right we can’t let the federal government detain people just because they feel like it without giving us a lawyer and A warrant or cause for arrest. 

  • Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    I’m a bit of a word nerd, and I was wondering the etymology of the word kidnap.

    kidnap (v.)

    1680s, thieves’ cant, a compound of kid (n.) “child” and nap (v.) “snatch away,” which probably is a variant of nab (v.). Perhaps a back-formation from kidnapper, which is recorded earlier. Originally "to steal children to provide servants and laborers in the American colonies.

    Source:https://www.etymonline.com/word/kidnap

    It’s as American as apple pie apparently.