Saudi princess is jailed

Orlando Sentinel ^ | December 18, 2001 | Doris Bloodsworth

[veronica]

Now THIS is a scandal. Shame.

[NixNatAVanG InDaBurgh]

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[NoCurrentFreeperByThatName]

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[NC_Libertarian]

What a bitch! Give her the maximum sentence.

Why are we friends with these low lives? Cheap oil isn't worth any of this. They are a dictatorship, let's get our shit and leave Saudi Arabia.

Stewart said he had "triple-checked" with the Immigration and Naturalization Service and been told that the 41-year-old princess had not notified the agency of her plans, leaving her without diplomatic immunity.

You mean people would be immune from prosecution for VIOLENT CRIMES????!!!!! That's outrageous. They should not offer bail on her, because she could pay it and skip the country and never pay for this violent crime.

[NC_Libertarian]

Wait and see...The maid will get deported. She will then suffer at the hands of Saudi royalty. She is screwed.

We should offer the maid asylum.

[NC_Libertarian]

She said "I can kill you and nothing would happen to me."

And about the diplomatic immunity. THAT LAW NEEDS TO BE CHANGED. WHAT AN OUTRAGE. How could someone come here and break our laws, especially violent crimes and be able to get away with it for diplomatic immunity? That's so wrong.

Is this a federal law, what's the deal with diplomatic immunity? And how many people have gotten away with bad crimes?

[RedBloodedAmerican]

She doesn't have immunity.

[NC_Libertarian]

I understand that in this case. I'm talking more generally. The whole concept is rediculous, don't you agree? That law should be changed.

[Azzurri]

I wonder what she looks like in orange?

Probably a lot like Susan McDougal...but better looking.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

I agree. You come to America, you abide by laws Americans abide by.

[DeckTheHallsHolly]

A better question might be...How does she like wearing orange?

[KC Burke]

I understand that in this case. I'm talking more generally. The whole concept is rediculous, don't you agree? That law should be changed.

I disagree for the most part. Diplomatic immunity for actual registered and recognized diplomats and their accompanying family members should stay largely unchanged. If we want our diplomats free from local arrest in the hazardous countries where they represent us, we must give corresponding immunity to all the reprehensible people that end up here as diplomats unless they violate established standards for that immunity.

That doesn't mean we don't apprehend them, send them packing after recognition is stripped, bar them from re-entry, or do other things that we are entitled to do in restricting law breakers. We can further restrict who is granted immunity and extended family members, living away from their diplomat principle should be kept on a very short leash in the allowance of that status, which appears the case here.

As she is not a diplomat or a person enjoying related immunity, she should be prosecuted under Florida State Law.

[Skel]

Deputies working off-duty at the time watched as the princess removed a sandal and beat Hamada, then punched him. The deputies did not report the battery.

This is a crime? Here in LA there are some who pay to have this done to them.

(No, not me. :P)

[I_Love_My_Husband]

Gerbil, thank you. You are right. My gay friend is disgusted at their behaviour every time they come into the hotel, he said it's all the Arab royals that are totally horrible. There's usually a male head of the family with wives and children and they are always gay, and unreasonable to deal with. He said they always are screaming at people in the hotel.

Weird, eh? I bet OBL might be the same type, mean gay guy with wives and children and expects everything to be catered to him, and he is always right.

Chemist Geek, thank you as well, I feel like I am the only one here FOR alternative energy. I think it CAN work, I think we Americans have the KNOW HOW to make it work, and if it's not working on the scale it should be, maybe the gov't should fund more research into the area, instead of say AIDS/HIV.

KQQL: yes, there are conservatives here, and I've met a few of them HERE! Hehe :)

[FReepaholic]

>>...Neighbors called 911 Friday after Ismiyati, 36, ran crying from the apartment ...pushed her down a flight of stairs, leaving her unable to walk...<<

Um...if she was unable to walk, how could she run crying from the apartment?

WAIT A MINUTE!!...it said she was unable to WALK..not RUN! Boy, it's amazing at what one can learn after living thru the Clinton era.

[Dallas]

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Princess Buniah al-Saud, the niece of King Fahd of Saudi
Arabia, is shown in this booking photo taken Monday night,
Dec. 17, 2001, by the Orange County Sheriff's office in
Orlando, Fla. The princess was being held without bond for
allegedly beating her servant and pushing her down a flight
of stairs. (AP Photo/police)