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Skriven 2011-05-22 11:48:58 av Robert Bashe (2:2448/44)
  Kommentar till text 19226 av Michiel van der Vlist (2:280/5555)
Ärende: Another Euro in jail
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Michiel van der Vlist wrote to Robert Bashe on Saturday May 21 2011 at 15:56:

MV>>> So much for "innocent until proven guilty"...

RB>> Should I now write you that it's none of your business what American
RB>> courts do on their own territory?

MV> TO THEIR OWN CITIZENS!

MV> I always added those four words when critisizing the US legal system.
MV> When a citizens of another country is involved, there are
MV> international treaties to respect and international relations to
MV> consider.

Trouble is, you're wrong. Go to Germany and you obey German laws - or else.
Same on a visit to France or anywhere else. Doesn't matter a whit that you're
not a national, you're in _their_ country and must obey _their_ laws. If you
don't want to, stay at home. And of course, ignorance of the law is no excuse.

The international treaties don't give a foreigner the right to go to another
country and break the laws there, and as for international relations... have
they saved Strauss-Kahn from jail just because he's French and prominent?

Or for that matter, how about the American Nazi who was arrested in Denmark at
the request of the Germans several years back after being invited to speak at a
gathering in Denmark, and immediately extradited to Germany to face charges?

Don't think you're somehow immune to punishment, even for something that's not
a crime in your own country, when you cross an international border. You
aren't, and that's the long and short of it. And that by no means applies
solely to the USA.

Cheers, Bob

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