GAWD these people infuriate me! Is there no shame inside the beltway? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0oxr-jGOsY&feature=related
Re: BUSH TOPARDON HIMSELF AND CREW FOR WARCRIMES!!!! Even if he can pull this off. that pardon would not exclude him from being charged by the international court for violations of the Geneva Convention. This is one Neocon that I despise more than Slick Willy.
Re: BUSH TOPARDON HIMSELF AND CREW FOR WARCRIMES!!!! Screw (or a few more stronger words) that. This is internal US business.
Re: BUSH TOPARDON HIMSELF AND CREW FOR WARCRIMES!!!! What do you guys think: war crimes or just roughing up some (first and) third world goobers?? Of course, Britain is none too happy with a few of its citizens being scooped up and sentto camp never-never land (gotta find that link her 'tis: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article2982640.ece From The Sunday Times <!-- this will be populated from CMS --><!-- BEGIN: Module - Advert:Top --><!-- For Travel Search --><!--SECTIONarameter parameter="dart.server" /--><!-- END: Module - Advert:Top --> December 2, 2007 US says it has right to kidnap British citizens <!-- END: Module - Main Heading --><!--CMA user Call Diffrenet Variation Of Image --><!-- BEGIN: Module - M24 Article Headline with no image (a) --><!-- getting the section url from article. This has been done so that correct url is generated if we are coming from a section or topic --><!-- Print Author name associated with the article --><!-- Print Author name from By Line associated with the article -->David Leppard <!-- END: Module - M24 Article Headline with no image --><!-- Article Copy module --><!-- BEGIN: Module - Main Article --><!-- Check the Article Type and display accordingly--><!-- Print Author image associated with the Author--><!-- Print the body of the article--><STYLE type=text/css> div#related-article-links p a, div#related-article-links p a:visited { color:#06c; } </STYLE><!-- Pagination -->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. <!--#include file="m63-article-related-attachements.html"--><!-- BEGIN: Module - M63 - Article Related Attachements --><SCRIPT type=text/javascript><!-- function pictureGalleryPopup(pubUrl,articleId) { var newWin = window.open(pubUrl+'template/2.0-0/element/pictureGalleryPopup.jsp?id='+articleId+'&&offset=0&§ionName=WorldUSAmericas','mywindow','menubar=0,resizable=0,width=1000,height=711'); } //--></SCRIPT><!-- BEGIN: Comment Teaser Module --><!-- END: Comment Teaser Module --><!-- BEGIN: Module - M63 - Article Related Package --><!-- END: Module - M63 - Article Related Package -->Related Links <FORM name=relatedLinksform action="" method=post></FORM> NatWest trio allowed time to pay off debts <FORM name=relatedLinksform action="" method=post></FORM> <!-- BEGIN: POLL --><!--This block will execute if an article of type Poll is attached--><!-- END : POLL --><!-- BEGIN: DEBATE--><!-- END: DEBATE--> <!-- END: Module - M63 - Article Related Attachements -->The American government has for the first time made it clear in a British court that the law applies to anyone, British or otherwise, suspected of a crime by Washington. Legal experts confirmed this weekend that America viewed extradition as just one way of getting foreign suspects back to face trial. Rendition, or kidnapping, dates back to 19th-century bounty hunting and Washington believes it is still legitimate. The US government’s view emerged during a hearing involving Stanley Tollman, a former director of Chelsea football club and a friend of Baroness Thatcher, and his wife Beatrice. The Tollmans, who control the Red Carnation hotel group and are resident in London, are wanted in America for bank fraud and tax evasion. They have been fighting extradition through the British courts. During a hearing last month Lord Justice Moses, one of the Court of Appeal judges, asked Alun Jones QC, representing the US government, about its treatment of Gavin, Tollman’s nephew. Gavin Tollman was the subject of an attempted abduction during a visit to Canada in 2005. Jones replied that it was acceptable under American law to kidnap people if they were wanted for offences in America. “The United States does have a view about procuring people to its own shores which is not shared,” he said. He said that if a person was kidnapped by the US authorities in another country and was brought back to face charges in America, no US court could rule that the abduction was illegal and free him: “If you kidnap a person outside the United States and you bring him there, the court has no jurisdiction to refuse — it goes back to bounty hunting days in the 1860s.” Mr Justice Ouseley, a second judge, challenged Jones to be “honest about [his] position”. Jones replied: “That is United States law.” He cited the case of Humberto Alvarez Machain, a suspect who was abducted by the US government at his medical office in Guadalajara, Mexico, in 1990. He was flown by Drug Enforcement Administration agents to Texas for criminal prosecution. Although there was an extradition treaty in place between America and Mexico at the time — as there currently is between the United States and Britain — the Supreme Court ruled in 1992 that the Mexican had no legal remedy because of his abduction. In 2005, Gavin Tollman, the head of Trafalgar Tours, a holiday company, had arrived in Toronto by plane when he was arrested by Canadian immigration authorities. An American prosecutor, who had tried and failed to extradite him from Britain, persuaded Canadian officials to detain him. He wanted the Canadians to drive Tollman to the border to be handed over. Tollman was escorted in handcuffs from the aircraft in Toronto, taken to prison and held for 10 days. A Canadian judge ordered his release, ruling that the US Justice Department had set a “sinister trap” and wrongly bypassed extradition rules. Tollman returned to Britain. Legal sources said that under traditional American justice, rendition meant capturing wanted people abroad and bringing them to the United States. The term “extraordinary rendition” was coined in the 1990s for the kidnapping of terror suspects from one foreign country to another for interrogation. There was concern this weekend from Patrick Mercer, the Tory MP, who said: “The very idea of kidnapping is repugnant to us and we must handle these cases with extreme caution and a thorough understanding of the implications in American law.” Shami Chakrabarti, director of the human rights group Liberty, said: “This law may date back to bounty hunting days, but they should sort it out if they claim to be a civilised nation.” The US Justice Department declined to comment. Additional reporting: Ann
Re: BUSH TOPARDON HIMSELF AND CREW FOR WARCRIMES!!!! More on our new export.: http://www.globalpolicy.org/empire/un/prisonindex.htm
Re: BUSH TOPARDON HIMSELF AND CREW FOR WARCRIMES!!!! Hang on a minute. Isn't kidnapping a terrorist activity?
Re: BUSH TOPARDON HIMSELF AND CREW FOR WARCRIMES!!!! Not when we do it only when the IRA or al-"cia"da do it...
another embarassingly Amero centric trait : No matter what we wear the white hats. People who disagree, are labled as "crackpots". Of course we are spreading democracy in the middleast - why even ask???
Exactly Tango3, just like the English did when they thought they were an empire. Pushing civilisation and religion onto you whether you wanted it or not! Hang on didn't Russia do that too?
Must be nice to break the law and then pardon oneself. If he indeed is trying to seek immunity, then that tells me he and/or associates of his are guilty What bill is he trying to push through?
They have lost all moral authority to lead and to pardon. He's even breaking a law to make a law to cover up his administration's crimes. Still the people won't stand. All it takes for bad men to flourish is for good men to do nothing.
