Lithuanian conservatives propose stripping citizenship for supporting Russia

https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2559690/lithuanian-conservatives-propose-stripping-citizenship-for-supporting-russia

Posted by 1DarkStarryNight

5 comments

  1. First of all: Fuck Rusia.

    Making that clear the issue with this kind of laws is that today your citizenship is stripped for supporting Russia, then it is stripped for supporting some ideologies, then for talking against some laws and they can end punishing you for going against the government.

    I would like to think that they are making this law with the best of intentions, but you have be extremely careful with kind of laws because they can easily become a free pass to suppress freedom of speech against the people in power.

    With that being said: Fuck Russia!

  2. There’s now way this could be misused /s

    Every state violates international law. Not to mention “support” is so vague it could be anything, even an anti war sentiment. This is just carte blanche for taking away someone’s citizenship. I’m especially curious whether they will take away the citizenship of native dual citizens, or native borns who acquire a foreign citizenship.

  3. They are either supremely confident or incalculably stupid.

    I suppose we’ll find out sooner or later how their overall foreign policy strategy will serve them, but either way, this kind of legislation is dangerous. It sets a terrible precedent and paves the way for abuse of power due to how vague and open to interpretation it would have to be to work as written.

    Also, while there are significant numbers of Lithuanians with personal ties to Russia, the vast majority of them are quite politically apathetic. Laws like this are a surefire way to cause people who might have otherwise just lived their lives, paid their taxes and kept their heads down to actually take active measures on behalf of one side or another.

  4. > The new proposal would extend this to all dual citizens, regardless of how they acquired the Lithuanian passport.

    So no one is losing their only citizenship.

  5. One day the EU will have to have a reckoning with countries like Lithuania and Estonia as some of what they are doing….let’s just say if they did it to any other minority the world would be furious.

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