Political prisoner is a progressive framing device to elicit sympathy for psychopaths. To lump this man in with the people typically associated with the term is an insult.
Furthermore, every imprisonment is done for political reasons. Murders and thieves undermine the regime's monopoly on violence and property. Every criminal act is definitionally an act against the State.
The judge admitted that this man is a political prisoner
Isn't everyone a political prisoner? Law is the formal expression of politics.
Begging your pardon, but you may have misunderstood the definition of political prisoner.
Political prisoner is a progressive framing device to elicit sympathy for psychopaths. To lump this man in with the people typically associated with the term is an insult.
Furthermore, every imprisonment is done for political reasons. Murders and thieves undermine the regime's monopoly on violence and property. Every criminal act is definitionally an act against the State.