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1 posted on 03/08/2006 4:11:28 AM PST by Proud Brit
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I wonder how Proud Brit really feels. LOL

We are obliged by the terms of the Extradition Act 2003 to send our nationals to America without prima facie evidence, yet America is under no corresponding duty to send people we want from America without prima facie evidence being supplied by us. ...

Why does that grotesque imbalance exist?

Obviously the question was more or less answered. It is right to say that Congress does not want to ratify the 2003 treaty because many Congressmen want to keep the ability to retain in America people whom they fear would not get a fair trial overseas and they want to keep a political bar to extradition.

Imagine!

It's also b/c it infringes on our freedoms as a nation with a system of due process when such systems don't necessarily exist, either formally or in practice, in other nations.

As well, since when are your "criminal citizens" of such value to you that you must defend them as such? Does the U.S. have a track record of extradicting Brits that failed to pay their subway tolls, trying them, and sentencing them to five years? I don't think so!

97 posted on 03/08/2006 6:09:26 AM PST by Fruitbat
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102 posted on 03/08/2006 6:20:15 AM PST by usmcobra (I always sing Karaoke the way it is meant to be sung, drunk, badly, and in Japanese)
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There is no excuse for that kind of ####ing language, you ####ing twit!!!!!!!!!

Just kidding. Your point is well taken. While we cannot trust most countries to be fair if we allow extradition of our citizens, we should trust the Brits, our allies for most of our history.


103 posted on 03/08/2006 6:20:19 AM PST by F.J. Mitchell (Diversity is a means to end.ing our existence.)
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THis poster does have a valid point, albeit unimaginativelly vulgar. THe U.S. should not be requesting extradition from another country to the U.S. on one standard, but demand a higher standard for countries requesting extradition from the U.S. And the U.S. has no business requesting extradition of suspects who have not committed crimes in the U.S. or against U.S. interests outside the U.S.


105 posted on 03/08/2006 6:22:51 AM PST by doc30 (Democrats are to morals what and Etch-A-Sketch is to Art.)
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108 posted on 03/08/2006 6:49:56 AM PST by scott0347 (Commander of the 0347th Lancer Brigade, Operator of the Immaculate Steamroller)
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Go #### yourself proud brit


116 posted on 03/08/2006 9:59:15 AM PST by vigilante2 (Thank you for your service Veterans)
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117 posted on 03/08/2006 10:10:04 AM PST by Old Sarge (My vigor to fight has been renewed.)
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118 posted on 03/08/2006 10:22:43 AM PST by Dallas59 ((“You love life, while we love death"( Al-Qaeda & Democratic Party))
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119 posted on 03/08/2006 11:02:01 AM PST by Thunder90
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your courts can prosecute American citizens in-absentia for your legal definition of slander and libel, and impose binding financial penalties. For this reason, Muslim groups use your courts to shut Americans up about islamic "charity" and other groups having connections to terror groups.

so don't expect any sympathy, dude.


120 posted on 03/08/2006 11:29:35 AM PST by King Prout (many accuse me of being overly literal... this would not be a problem if many were not under-precise)
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We aren't some ####y, little, lickspittle, third world country to be pushed around by sinister-looking men in 70s shades: we are the ####ing British

Psst... we won.

121 posted on 03/08/2006 11:31:07 AM PST by Not A Snowbird (Official RKBA Landscaper and Arborist, Duchess of Green Leafy Things)
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We aren't some ####y, little, lickspittle, third world country to be pushed around by sinister-looking men in 70s shades: we are the ####ing British and we don't ship our citizens off to any ####ing country unless that country can show us a really good reason why we should. And even then we might just tell you to #### off.

Perhaps not, but when you go up against a major military power like ARGENTINA we have to come bail your @$$ out just like we did in WWI and WWII.

</Cliff Claven voice>

122 posted on 03/08/2006 1:42:12 PM PST by VRWCmember (You are STILL safer hunting with Dick Cheney than riding in a car with Ted Kennedy!)
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....we are the inventors of just about every sodding invention that has made man's life a little bit better in the last 400 years....


All right! Stop right there!
This is too silly!

Inventors? Did you mean inventors as in "toothbrush technology," or inventors such as "Al Gore?"

I didn't have much good to say about Tony Blair until he came through for us in this war.

As for the extradition mess, faTeddy started out messing with the "emigrant" rules in 1986 for his Irish pals. He has been in a state of intoxication since then, so the 9/11 guys came here, too. So sue him.

124 posted on 03/08/2006 10:49:02 PM PST by Watery Tart (Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three.)
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