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Skriven 2008-01-14 15:41:50 av Ward Dossche (2:292/854)
     Kommentar till en text av Jeff Smith
Ärende: Re: Myths
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Jeff,
 
JS>WD> When one argues well enough it probably is possible to getting
JS>WD> someone convicted for farting.
 
JS> If that were the case I might never be a free man again. <g>
 
How 'bout entering the bottled-methane business? :-)
 
JS> Did not the arrest occur on US soil in Chicago? Didn't Blom travel to
JS> Chicago to meet someone he thought was a 14 year old girl and was
JS> arrested after arriving in the US?
 
Indeed, he "thought" there was a 14yr old girl. The way I see it the only thing
that occured is that mr.Blom was lied to by a police-officer about his or her
age.
 
So there was no 14yr old girl. Mr.Blom merely wasted his money on a round-trip
flight to Chicago. There are some very good museums there.
 
JS> If I were to travel to Belgium to do something
JS> that I knew or suspected was a crime in Belgium. I would be bound by any
JS> and all Belgium laws and pay whatever penalty was required either in
JS> money and/or time.
 
Absolutely ... but not before you committed a punishable crime.
 
JS>WD>  Further, posing like that is even illegal I think under Dutch law.
 
JS> Which would be relevant IF the crime had occured on Dutch soil and
JS> under Dutch law.
 
"Which" crime are you talking about?
 
The worst thing that he can be accused of is a violation of the I94
immigration-form, backside, item-B, second paragraph.
 
As a consequence Paragraph-8 applies and he should've been put on the next
flight out as per US law.
 
JS> Sorry but that idea doesn't quite make sense. The LEO didn't (As I
JS> understand it) misrepresent themself under US law and Dutch courts would
JS> have no jurisdition since no Dutch law was broken nor any criminal act
JS> commited on Dutch soil.
 
This makes quite some sense as that specific LEO impersonated someone else
outside his/her jurisdiction and when such a court decides it can rule and does
in effect rule, what do you want to do about it? Whatever he or she did under
US law does not cut any cake in a Dutch court.
 
Roger Nelson and Joe Bruchis better be warned if they try to lure me to the US
under false motives. ;-)
 
 \%/@rd

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