Posted on 02/22/2002 9:38:37 AM PST by areafiftyone
Edited on 09/03/2002 4:50:00 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
A judge ruled Friday that a Saudi princess accused of hitting her maid can return to Saudi Arabia to be with her family until she stands trial.
Princess Buniah al-Saud's attorney told the judge she wanted to go home to celebrate Eid al-Adha, a holiday associated with the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca. When asked by her attorney if she would return, al-Saud said softly: "Of course I will."
Al-Saud, 41, a niece of King Fahd of Saudi Arabia, added that her family's name would be tarnished if she didn't.
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The name is already tarnished, she won't come back.
She should have thought of that before she decided to whack her maid around. Tell the king to get over it.
Anyone?
What if she put her hand on the Koran and swore an oath to Allah that she'd return? That way, once she's safely out of our reach in Saudi Arabia, she and her family can share a good laugh at US naivete, and at our government's amusing but unproductive efforts to get her back for trial.
Yeah, she will come back riding a flying pig.
I have seen some pretty stupid judges, but I suspect this one doesn't expect her to return.
Yeah, maybe that very one.....
Here's a link for y'all:
Princess charged with assault in US (This Time With Pictures of Princess and Victim)
Yeah, that bunch of corrupt autocrats have such a fine reputation....
Set bail for $10 million, in cash, then when she doesn't come back, give $1 million to the maid, and the rest to some pro-Zionist organization. Warn her, and her family, ahead of time that this is what will happen.
Will they be putting up odds in Vegas on the probabilty of her return to stand trial?
That says it all!
That rests on the assumption that he did this of his own volition. Do you think he did? I don't, in fact I can't even fathom the depth of naiveté required to come to this conclusion.
Come now, lets be realistic. Some unnamed administration needs some unmentioned favors from a certain wealthy Middle East oil family. So certain phone calls are made, certain deals are struck, and a certain judge gets a 'helpful suggestion' from a member of a certain administration.
So some judge has to make a decision. He can take this 'helpful advice', assuring himself some possible perks and an easy re-election, or he can take the principled approach, and uphold the law and suffer the unmentioned political consequences.
So, you may feel disgusted that a judge would sell out and now you might want to elect a different one. Now ask yourself, will anyone with the principles you demand ever even get a chance to be on the ballot? Do you really such an individual would rise in such a system that he'd ever even get get a chance to be judge to begin with?
Maybe you do. And maybe you think there's no such thing as a favored class, and that everyone is equal under the law, and that elected officials are above such behavior, and that back room deals are exclusively the things of countries inferior to our own. Heck, you might even labor under the delusion that this is still a constitutional republic.
But I don't take you for a fool, and I don't think you think that.
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