Posted on 09/15/2015 1:53:52 PM PDT by upbeat5
A YouTube video that went viral — showing a Ferrari LaFerrari and Porsche 911 GT3 tearing through residential streets of Beverly Hills; flying though stop signs while pedestrians waited to cross, narrowly avoiding other motorists — has caused outrage, with neighbors pleading with police to take action before someone gets hurt.
According to NBC4, the owner of said vehicles is claiming “diplomatic immunity,” telling a video journalist who asked for comment, “I could have you killed and get away with it.”
The name of the car’s owner has not been released, but he is rumored to be part of the Qatari royal family, and indeed the yellow LaFerrari — that boasts 950 hybrid horsepower and a price tag of $1.5 million — is registered to Qatar.
In the video the cars are seen screaming through residential streets, an area neighbors claim children play, before returning to the $10 million rented house in which the owner resides with smoke billowing from under the Ferrari’s hood. Video journalist Jacob Rogers told NBC4 he confronted the LaFerrari owner, and having been told he could effectively get away with murder due to his diplomatic status, he finished the brief interaction, according to Rogers, by saying, “’(Expletive) America’ and threw a cigarette at me.“
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Not revoked, per se, but all we need to do is revoke their diplomatic visa, and it is effectively the same thing. They can’t legally stay here without a visa, so it wouldn’t really matter if their home country wanted to preserve their immunity or not.
So, essentially expel him? That would be fine with me, but our State Department would tell us that it would most likely lead to a tit-for-tat expulsion of one (or more) of our diplomats in that country, etc.
Long ago, I worked with a woman who had diplomatic cover in Moscow for her job with the CIA. After many years of successful espionage, the Soviets finally caught on and expelled her. Our State Department knew perfectly well that she was a spy who got caught but, under the rules of the game, we promptly expelled one of the known KGB people working at Aeroflot in DC.
Beverly Hills libs. I’ll bet they all voted for Obummer and want open borders. Of course until their pristine community is affected.
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