detain

This device detains you and then lets you move on.

"Right, so we'll shred the treaty, detain their diplomats, and prepare to shell their cities.

If you detain someone for longer than half an hour, you provide for their needs period.

These reports will be sent to the appropriate LEO to summon and indefinitely detain you.

So when Stalin was going to incarcerate people, they used night, and police will take off their shoes so nobody hear them detain their neighbors.

The fact that they use everyone's tax money to kill and detain innocent people all over the world and spy on everyone doesn't really mean it's a bad system.

You think that reading through Facebook posts or asking the British government to detain someone in an airport for 9 hours is what marks the end of America?

The security official told me that they had the right to detain him for up to 9 hours in order to question him, at which point they could either arrest and charge him or ask a court to extend the question time.

Basically, what the dudes should have done was say: "Hello Mr. Mukerjee, we have to detain you on the basis of <whatever law they are doing it on> because we have suspicions that you might try to harm the passengers on board.

The first fucking thing you do when you detain someone is explain them why they are detained, how long they will be detained and -- if they have not actually broken any law and are there for preventive action, what you are doing in order to prevent it.

Also the fact that he worked for the CIA 20 years ago seems disingenuously noted by the author; I don't think anybody expects him to kidnap employees and detain them in torture camps, although I suspect the author is trying to invoke that "secret agent" connotation.

Abroad, we undermine legitimate governments, invade countries illegally, assassinate people with drones, we torture, detain people indefinitely, commit war crimes - all with impunity from our own people, even after the atrocity has been exposed and there are no doubts about the facts involved.