The United States has called on China to end the “extrajudicial” detention and kidnapping of prominent lawyers and human rights activists, the State Department said Tuesday. Nor was there anything “extralegal” about the CIA interrogations. People do not engage in extra-legal activities for any reason, but to improve their lot in life. Whether it`s a second car or air conditioning for your Paris apartment. US calls on China to end abductions of lawyers and activists The US government has called on China to end “extrajudicial” abductions and detentions of lawyers and human rights activists. In my opinion, there is a small difference between illegal and extra-legal. Extralegal usually involves something done outside the bounds of the law, but somehow justified by common sense because that law is ill-conceived, biased, bigot, malicious, or just plain absurd. For example, someone shouting “Kim Jong-Il SUCKED!” in North Korea is doing something extralegal in the eyes of Westerners and illegal in the eyes of North Korea. I have a position at TechDirt, where I will occasionally contribute from now on, on John Ashcroft`s recent comment defending telecommunications immunity for cooperation in eavesdropping. While admitting that burglaries were “extra-legal,” he justified them as protecting the “greater good.” The group mourns a friend who died a year earlier and tries to fund a move to California through various extra-legal schemes that unwittingly put them in conflict with other local landlords. The other front goes beyond the confines of constitutional and democratic competition and extends into the realm of illegal or extrajudicial efforts to undermine the electoral process. To think otherwise is to pretend that people engage in extralegal economic activities just to smile and laugh.

Amy, the actress with deep ties to the industry, has seen actors get what they need through “friendly” doctors and extra-legal means. The government retained its power for a while through extra-legal acts, setting aside election results it disliked. The poor, who are not stupid, naturally build, own, buy and sell their domains on an “extra-legal” market – a domain outside the official law. “Extralegal.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/extralegal. Retrieved 27 September 2022. This is the kind of extrajudicial America was supposed to prevent. Our country is on its way to becoming a police state, and this kind of extrajudicial atrocity is an important step in that direction. These sample phrases are automatically selected from various online information sources to reflect the current use of the word “extralegal”. The views expressed in the examples do not represent the views of Merriam-Webster or its editors.

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