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Shashi Tharoor is India's Minister of State for Human Resource Development.

Not sure what to make of this incident, except that the Indian government and population are furious.

Is 0bama trying to sabotage relations with another vital ally? The thought has certainly crossed my mind.

1 posted on 01/07/2014 9:09:39 AM PST by mojito
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The US Attorney in New York was born in INDIA.

Many Indian immigrants have a strong dislike for India and the culture of the subcontinent.


2 posted on 01/07/2014 9:11:46 AM PST by MadIsh32 (In order to be pro-market, sometimes you must be anti-big business)
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Some background in the WaPo:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/devyani-khobragade-agrees-to-waive-indictment-deadline/2014/01/06/419effe6-770a-11e3-8963-b4b654bcc9b2_story.html

The alleged strip-search video is apparently a hoax:

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2014-01-05/india/45882000_1_video-clip-fabrication-state-department

3 posted on 01/07/2014 9:11:56 AM PST by mojito (Zero, our Nero.)
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The Indian people are normally measured and conservative. To hear this sort of commentary out of India is troubling to say the least.


4 posted on 01/07/2014 9:12:18 AM PST by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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don’t get this. thought diplomatic immunity would cover this, seems to cover everything else.


5 posted on 01/07/2014 9:12:30 AM PST by 12th_Monkey (In an alternate universe Obama still dips ice cream)
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Of course (Democrat-run) America is ugly.

B*tt ugly.

MSNBC ugly.

Obamadork ugly.

We need an ugly-excision.

Stat.

As for New York...you ain’t seen really ugly yet.


7 posted on 01/07/2014 9:15:44 AM PST by Da Coyote
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please forgive me but on reading somethomg to the affect that the ugly american was returning to India ..I just couldnt help thinking of this guy


8 posted on 01/07/2014 9:15:45 AM PST by MeshugeMikey ( a Safe..and Sane....2014 To All!)
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When you listen to pissant types like Carney, and the way we’ve treated our allies during the past few years, it’s clear we’re a bunch jerks in the eyes of the world.

We have suitless incompetent at the helm who does nothing but campaign and play golf. Everything he does is political and with an eye on his poll numbers.

We have a long way to go. I look for this guy to be tested. China will continue to provoke its neighbors, Russia with poke us in the eye, and we’ll see the Iran betrayal within the next six months or so.

On the home front, more unraveling and discourse esp with Hillary entering her hat in the ring.


9 posted on 01/07/2014 9:17:20 AM PST by nikos1121
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I disagree with the notion of the return of the ‘ugly’ American. With the NYPD as an example I would say that we are seeing the rise of the Dangerous American.


11 posted on 01/07/2014 9:18:47 AM PST by MeganC (Support Matt Bevin to oust Mitch McConnell! https://mattbevin.com/)
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15 posted on 01/07/2014 9:29:10 AM PST by diverteach (If I find liberals in heaven after my death.....I WILL BE PISSED!!!)
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Is 0bama trying to sabotage relations with another vital ally?

Yes, his strategy is counting on Indian authorities confusing the attitudes and actions of American government employees with those of American citizens civilians, and desires negative consequences on American citizen civilians outside the US for optics.

Dictators always create a threat to distract negative attention from themselves.

16 posted on 01/07/2014 9:34:47 AM PST by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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“India’s Minister of State for Human Resource Development”

Yea, and here in the US we have HR departments ramming diversity down our throats. Apparently they don’t do that in India.


17 posted on 01/07/2014 9:36:02 AM PST by caver (Obama: Home of the Whopper)
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IF this story is as reported, somebody screwed up a lot.

This would be somewhat understandable had it occurred with local law enforcement in Podunk.

But US State Department Diplomatic Security Service agents really ought to be up on this stuff.


19 posted on 01/07/2014 9:37:35 AM PST by Sherman Logan
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"A former Indian foreign minister, Yashwant Sinha, has publicly called for retaliation against gay American diplomats in India, whose sexual orientation and domestic arrangements are now illegal after a recent Supreme Court ruling. The government has not taken him seriously, but his suggestion indicates how inflamed passions have become."

While Obama is undoubtedly happy that there are problems with the US India relationship, this strategy would cause him heartburn. The US official policy of aiding and spreading the homosexual lifestyle around the world in contravention to local laws and mores needs a forceful push back.

20 posted on 01/07/2014 9:38:09 AM PST by Truth29
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Teach us a lesson and take back all your crap quality software “engineers” so Americans can have the jobs.


21 posted on 01/07/2014 9:47:57 AM PST by TheRhinelander
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The animals who arrested and then digitally raped this woman guywith their fingers should be shot and their handlers imprisoned.


24 posted on 01/07/2014 10:40:32 AM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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The Indians just found out the USA is now a police state.


25 posted on 01/07/2014 10:44:58 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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I’ve wondered about this story on at least two related fronts:

1. Is it typical to arrest, and to jail pretrial (rather than to release on O.R. or a small bond), ANYone suspected of underpaying employees? That sounds like a civil and/or regulatory matter, not a criminal one, at least not unless the alleged abuses are far more severe than underpayment. (This question is without regard to the foreign/ diplomatic status of the defendant.)

2. I thought any credentialed diplomat was diplomatically immune from prosecution, including arrest, period. All the host nation can do (I thought, apparently incorrectly?) is to declare the diplomat Persona Non Grata and give him/her 72 hours or so to GTFO.


26 posted on 01/07/2014 11:09:27 AM PST by pogo101
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That must mean SecState John F’ing Kerry is coming to visit India to spread the Obama charm to the subcontinent.
27 posted on 01/07/2014 11:27:23 AM PST by MasterGunner01
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"Is 0bama trying to sabotage relations with another vital ally?

The only explaination that makes sense.

28 posted on 01/07/2014 11:29:35 AM PST by Pecos (The Chicago Way: Kill the Constitution, one step at a time.)
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Most of us know Americanized Indians and not very high-caste, very Indian, very Hindu Indians.

Hello hath no fury if you try to get between a Brahmin Princess and her royal privileges.

30 posted on 01/07/2014 11:44:24 AM PST by Mamzelle
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