Posted on 12/17/2013 10:59:04 AM PST by posterchild
When WE choose to end it!
According to another article, the diplomat’s salary was Rs. 400,000 a month, which would be approx. $6400 US.
It’s inconceivable she could’ve been paying the nanny more the 70% of her salary for her services.
Correction, visa fraud. But still...
This part of “we” has chosen it.
It's not a tax issue. It's about underpaying a nanny imported from home and lying about it on the nanny's visa application. So, yeah, legally it's a legitimate beef.
And, no, it does not justify the treatment of Ms. Khobragade, which the US Attorney no doubt arranged (using police SOP as the excuse) in order to show the world how tough he is. Why, some day, he might a future tough-on-crime Democrat governor of New York!
However, she's a diplomat and can't legally be arrested, only expelled. The Democrat US Attorney has succeeded in embroiling the country in an entirely unnecessary diplomatic dispute with a key ally.
Well, Brown Shirts (Democrat Leadership) will report you for just about anything. And the DHS and NSA is spying into every facet of your life. I’m sure all of us on this site on a “List” as potential terrorists because we still believe in Free Speech, right to assembly and Free Press
Yes, reportedly the visa application said the nanny would be getting $4500 a month. However, the actual amount to be paid was Rs. 30,000, which was $573 at the time of the offense, but is only $485 now, the Rupee having declined a bit.
It makes perfect sense in view of O$hithead’s muzzie love affair, since Pakistan is muzzie and India is not.
“We don’t do that here.”
That’s correct and there are a hell of a lot of things that US diplomats do over “there” (not specifically India but foreign postings generally) that the locals ain’t allowed to do, drinking alcohol, having sex with partners who aren’t their spouses, having same-sex relationships, smoking a bit of weed etc.
By your reasoning if a US diplomat gets caught doing that sort of stuff the then local cops can rough ‘em up, steal their money, stick ‘em in the slammer with all the deadbeats and criminals in cockroach-infested prison cells where they are fed slop and with no access to a lawyer, after all that’s how the local people get treated so why should some fancy-schmancy diplomat get any different treatment?
The US has a lot more to lose than India in this fight.
Obama is doing a fine job of driving a wedge between the US and all of her allies, all by himself. I don't think he even needs the help of other islamists.
No, we don’t need diplomats in those $hitholes. If their diplomats break our laws then they must be punished. Should dips from mooslim countries be aloud to follow sharia law (not that they already do under this admin)?
Also, the world we live in allows for instant info sharing. It’s not like this woman didn’t know the laws.
From what I’ve read so far (being here in India, this is all over the news), the diplomat is merely consular staff, so she doesn’t have full immunity. She has immunity for matters directly related to her position (if she were a spy, she’d just get thrown out), but is not protected for other issues. Further, an Indian court ordered the maid not to take legal action against the diplomat, which means the maid could not pursue the matter along civil lines, and thus this became a criminal matter. The US had no choice except to arrest the diplomat over the matter at that point (US hands were tied; complaint by maid had already been filed so they were required to act).
OH tuff toenails, whinnie indians piss and moan about everthing.
>>>Sharia Law now rules in New York City. Strip searching “Infidels” and imprisoning them. Well, sort of. We are becoming, no, we now are the 4th Reich. Nazism has overtaken our government<<<
More like a 4th World. I don’t think Nazy standards, or Mexican and Colombian allowed to arrest a foreign diplomat this way.
You can expect such a thing in Zimbabwe, Somalia or People’s Republic of NYC.
“No, we don’t need diplomats in those $hitholes.”
Oh yes you do, if you didn’t the US government wouldn’t waste billions of dollars and the time and energy of thousands of able, well-trained staff by keeping them there.
You seriously, honestly believe that the US doesn’t need a diplomatic corps.
Seriously?
Maybe you think the US can just put a great big plastic bubble over itself and ignore the rest of the world.
Just because you use hyperbole does not mean the rest of us do.
Yes, there are some places that don’t deserve our presence. India would not be acting so butt hurt over this if they knew there were consequences for this little temper tantrum.
“India would not be acting so butt hurt over this if they knew there were consequences for this little temper tantrum.”
You think so do you? So you believe that India will be the nation that comes out worse in this row do you?
Care for a little wager?
I am certain that it will be the US who backs down on this, makes some sort of apology and tries to restore better relations with India and not the other way around.
And I say this not just because Obama is in charge, I believe Bush or Reagan would behave in exactly the same way. The US has much, much more to lose in this squabble than India does.
You need to readjust your worldview my friend, the US needs friends, allies and business partners in sh!tholes around the world today, it ain’t 1945 anymore and India is too big and too important to piss off.
I guess Valerie Jarrett is punishing India
for not allowing sharia law in India.There are no adults in the West Wing.
Some on this thread are convicting the Diplomat
without a trial and based only on allegations.We seem to have Brown Shirts among us.
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