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Title: US says it has right to kidnap British Citizens
Post by: Straw Man on December 17, 2007, 07:51:56 AM: December 2, 2007

US says it has right to kidnap British citizens
David Leppard
AMERICA has told Britain that it can “kidnap” British citizens if they are wanted for crimes in the United States.

A senior lawyer for the American government has told the Court of Appeal in London that kidnapping foreign citizens is permissible under American law because the US Supreme Court has sanctioned it.

The admission will alarm the British business community after the case of the so-called NatWest Three, bankers who were extradited to America on fraud charges. More than a dozen other British executives, including senior managers at British Airways and BAE Systems, are under investigation by the US authorities and could face criminal charges in America.

Until now it was commonly assumed that US law permitted kidnapping only in the “extraordinary rendition” of terrorist suspects.

more here: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article2982640.ece
Title: Re: US says it has right to kidnap British Citizens
Post by: Decker on December 17, 2007, 08:05:32 AM: This kind of horseshit only makes sense to the crowd that believes that international law does not exist.

That way the invasion of Iraq and AFghanistan were legal and the US can have license to do as it pleases abroad...like kidnap anyone it wants.
Title: Re: US says it has right to kidnap British Citizens
Post by: Straw Man on December 17, 2007, 09:44:23 AM: Quote from: Decker on December 17, 2007, 08:05:32 AM
This kind of horseshit only makes sense to the crowd that believes that international law does not exist.

That way the invasion of Iraq and AFghanistan were legal and the US can have license to do as it pleases abroad...like kidnap anyone it wants.

Given how this is OK for us I'm sure we'd have no problem if say China or Russia declared they had the same right in the US
Title: Re: US says it has right to kidnap British Citizens
Post by: Decker on December 17, 2007, 11:30:38 AM: Quote from: Straw Man on December 17, 2007, 09:44:23 AM
Given how this is OK for us I'm sure we'd have no problem if say China or Russia declared they had the same right in the US
You are asking for people to see things from a different perspective. That won't fly on the right wind side.
Title: Re: US says it has right to kidnap British Citizens
Post by: 240 is Back on December 17, 2007, 11:31:59 AM: Quote from: Straw Man on December 17, 2007, 09:44:23 AM
Given how this is OK for us I'm sure we'd have no problem if say China or Russia declared they had the same right in the US

you'll get crickets on this one.
Title: Re: US says it has right to kidnap British Citizens
Post by: trab on December 17, 2007, 12:30:25 PM: Bush is on short notice... Shits gonna change.