The Long Reach of US Extradition

CuteSteveJobs writes "The New Matilda reports how the U.S. is now able to extradite people for minor offences, and asks why foreign governments so willingly give up their nationals to the U.S. to 'face justice' over minor crimes committed outside U.S. borders? Lawyer Kellie Tranter writes, 'the long arm of the Government is using criminal enforcement powers to enforce commercial interests at the behest of corporations and their lobbyists.' A former NSW Chief Judge said it was bizarre 'that people are being extradited to the U.S. to face criminal charges when they have never been to the U.S. and the alleged act occurred wholly outside the U.S.' He said although copyright violations are a great problem, a country 'must protect its nationals from being removed from their homeland to a foreign country merely because the commercial interests of that foreign country.' Australia recently 'streamlined' its laws to make extradition to the U.S. even easier."

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Re:There's a good dog

[stms]

You could vote for a third party your guy won't win but at least you can send a message. If you vote Republican or Democrat you're essentially saying you guys are doing a good enough job as it is.

Re:Bribery

[mrmeval]

If there was a WOG conspiriakii there'd have to be a membership criteria and it would have to have SOME public exposure or how else would they recruit? Clones don't work well as they're born stupid and current indoctrination techniques leave them lacking. They need diverse new blood, yes it's a 'jew' conspiriakii but seriously only a small subset of the Ashkenazim have a high IQ and only that from surviving a form of oppression that really doesn't exist anymore. Yes, that is sad but it does mean that non-jews can join the conspiriakii I just can find out where to sign up. It could not possibly be because I'm stupid.

Now lets see if anyone reads all of that and I don't get a karma smash.