Julian Assange dragged from Ecuador's embassy in London and arrested

Um, that’s not right.

Extradition is a form of rendition, and “rendition” isn’t a synonym for “kidnapping” (although kidnapping could, and has been, an ugly method of performing a rendition)

Rendition as a single word and legal term just means “transfer”. Legal two-country extradition is a kind of rendition, and “extraordinary rendition” was a euphemism for “way-outside-of-the-usual-laws transfer” (which was most often kidnapping, ie “forced involuntary transfer”).

The word isn’t what made it evil, it’s what they did, without the euphemistically-used neutral word.

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