Posted on 05/08/2009 4:23:49 PM PDT by JoeProBono
A man wanted in Germany for Nazi war crimes has been ordered by US authorities to surrender to an immigration office for deportation. John Demjanjuk, who lives in Ohio, has been fighting deportation since March, when Germany filed charges against him. On Thursday, the US Supreme Court rejected a request by Mr Demjanjuk, 89, to intervene in the case. He denies accusations that he worked as a guard in the Sobibor Nazi death camp during World War II. He says he was captured by the Germans in his native Ukraine during the war and kept as a prisoner of war.
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I’m with you on this-—let the old man be. It’s not like he started the war.
“It has puzzled me whenever anyone claims that they now have the dead man cornered while still breathing.”
It’s the seriousness of the charge, not the accuracy.
The Israelis couldn’t make any charges stick so unless the Germans have something new (from,let’s say,documents obtained from East German files) then why are they doing this? Politics,most likely.
What about double jeopardy?
What about it? As far as I’m aware he’s not facing trial in the same juristiction twice. Germany is bringing its own charges against him quite seperate to those of Israel...
You don’t get out very often, do you?
He was extradited to Israel, they screwed up royally, and now Germany wants him, as wishy-washy an ally as a country could be. That’s double jeopardy, and the United States is shameful for allowing such on anyone.
She's from Londonistan. 'Nuff said.
Well, in the first place, double-jeapardy is an English Common law tradition, not a continental European or an Israeli one. Secondly, if I’m not mistaken, in a case were a crime breaks both state and federal laws, one can try a person again if either the state or federal case falls through...
As you have attempted to research me, presumably in order to try and dig up some ‘dirt’ on me in order to make personal attacks instead of dealing with the topic like someone who appears to not be confident in their own intellectual ability to convince others of their own opinion, I will tell you what you have obviously failed to glean from my previous posts. I am neither a ‘she’ nor am I from London....
And she's another dime-a-dozen uppity twit from Londonistan too.
Any country where they don't put bullets in the brains of the mental cripples that say toddlers who don't clean their plates are racist(!) are worthy of nothing but scorn.
Its sadly ironic that you apparently advocate summary capital punishment for the stupid and the mentally ill, because judging from that last post, you would probably be amongst the first to be lined up alongside an open trench...
Keep lecturing me, Brainiac. You’re gaining ground.
*snicker*
Whatever. Go and suck a horseshoe or something. There are grown-ups talking here...
The UK is a socialist sewer, where the whites have totally surrendered to the Islamofascists and the dangerously mentally ill, and you think you can tell us how to run our Country?
Hurry back, spineless.
Well, considering that we are about to vote back a Conservative government in less than a year and you’ve got at least 4 years of Obama, I think that time may well becoming...
You're kidding, right? How many years has the UK been sliding into the Socialist toilet? And now all of a sudden the Resurrection is at hand?
*snort*
I count 12 years. There is going to be a backlash against Nu-Labour big time, evidence of which will be seen in the European and Local Election results next month. Cameron won’t be a new Thatcher, but I can guarantee you he will be a vast, vast improvement on the Obamanation you lot are stuck with until at least 2013, or even longer if your fellow citizens are daft enough to vote him in for a second round. Because after all, we’re not the only ones who have a large number of idiots who are prepared to vote for leftist f-wits to misrule the country....
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