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And mine was a comment about that. And all the related objections people want to insert that distinguish Maduro from any common criminal.
The template being used out there for what many people objecting have to say goes like this: "Maduro is a bad guy who deserves everything he gets, BUT...". Too much of it is just situational politics; plenty of people are having their support for similar past actions thrown back in their faces just as they have on other vexing matters like drone assassinations and air strikes and support for the trouble-making countries of the world.
There are norms (legal or otherwise) we create to protect liberal institutions, but norms are breached when they're unreasonable and frustration mounts sufficiently. Then some people feel the need to defend the unreasonable part - in some cases merely because of who is doing the breaching, because their past comments are at odd with their present ones - instead of starting the negotiation to preserve the reasonable parts, and that merely antagonizes those already frustrated because they have already cast aside pure "law is the law" straight-jackets. It's OK to undo the oppressors of the world without assuming it has to mean every prominent political leader is fair game, and so to rearrange matters to make that more than just ostensibly permissible.
We are awash in problems that can apparently only be solved by lengthy costly difficult often unsuccessful (high bar) processes. Either people in general will have to submit to all the flavours of disorder, or the rules will have to bend enough to placate them (my preferred CoA), or the rules will be broken irretrievably.
