As in the concept of evidence-based prosecution, jury trials, and reasonable sentencing. Not black-bagging people or assassinating them in the small hours of the night because of a presumed association.

If that’s how you want to treat Nazis I won’t try to disabuse you of the idea, but you definitely shouldn’t want or expect the State to hand that retribution out.

EDIT: more contextually, I’d like to believe that if they had the evidence and authority to keep indefinite custody of them, they would have. But they were released. With everything going on in the US it’s easy (at least for me) to forget that that’s how things work in a functioning democracy. Throwing them in a hole based on a whim and against what you have the legal authority to do is what would be arbitrary.

I know you can’t just detain people arbitrarily in a free country, but it sucks that they’re probably just going to flee back to Israel now that they’ve learned the lesson that they’re not untouchable outside of Israel and the US.

Reminder that the IDF has published guidelines for its troops on how to evade getting arrested by an ICC member state while traveling abroad, which is definitely something a very moral and humane military does.