you are kidding me

[deathboy]

US says it has right to kidnap British citizens

ahahahahahahahahaah-- wait, hang on, WHAT? O_O

Comments

[zero-shadow.livejournal.com]

Yay go go British Rights... oh snap.

[robo-toda.livejournal.com]

You really expect anything else from a nation that can elect a cowboy to president, and select another, just because of who he is?

[mwissa.livejournal.com]

Oh hells yes we do.

I'mma comin' for you Scott.

wait...

[disgruntledgrrl.livejournal.com]

But if we stroll down to Mexico to get one of our OWN - we get blasted.

WTF??

[liz-lowlife.livejournal.com]

FFS.

[ephemera.livejournal.com]

so USA law trumps international law and worldwide extradition treaties now? WTF!

[echo-echo.livejournal.com]

It took you this long to realise that?!?!

The issue is usually, "Well what are you going to do about it?". And given America has the biggest stick and the deepest pockets, the response to the silence is usually, "Thought not, now SSTFU".

[frostedmessiah.livejournal.com]

I already know this, as I've been kept prisoner in Florida for the last six years.

SEND TWIGLETS.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Please note: The Fucker In The White House And His Pet Assholes are not the United States.

I blame Diebold, because I have trouble believe that THAT many of the people in my country are THAT stupid.

[deathboy.livejournal.com]

Am aware :/ sorry state of affairs for us all, man.

I do notice, too, that that article is quite skewed. Though it still puts the willies up me.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Sadly, no, it's not particularly skewed. That is, in fact, the way the goatfuckers in the Administration think.

See, the main problem with the Administration is that, well, the only voting bloc they've still got is the "psycho violent loony" vote. And all our political assassins COME from that bloc. So, while there is every reason to assasinate them, none of us who hate the guy are actually violent murderers.

Shame, really.

[gillen.livejournal.com]

I, on the other hand, both doubt the vote count and have no trouble believing that many of my countrymen are truly that stupid/evil.

[therealdrhyde.livejournal.com]

Oh we all know that that cunt isn't the US. But what really fucks me off is that for all the USians who go on at great and tedious length about the "right to bear arms" and justify it with "preventing tyranny" - well, I've not seen a whole lot of use of those arms to put an end to the current tyranny. I conclude that the gun nut lobby are hypocrites.

Personally, I'm all in favour of guns. My reason is that shooting is fun.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

I am deeply in the "making holes in targets while simultaneously making loud noises is FREAKIN' AWESOME" camp.

My problem is several-fold. As I said above, the "psycho violent loony" bloc is the only bloc that still supports Bush. And for the NON-psycho NON-violent NON-loonies who think that the world would be improved by bullets through the crania of, say, Musharif, Putin, and Bush, just as three entirely hypothetical examples that have NOTHING to do with my own person opinions, well, those three people have FUCKLOADS OF SECURITY.

Personally, I think that, if the Second Amendment is supposed to be a check against tyranny, then government officials should be forbidden from having security within their own country. If they want to have security when going into war zones, that's okay. But democratically-elected leaders who are officially simply citizens who represent their fellow citizens should be required to live like the people who elected them.

[dooomkitten.livejournal.com]

Oh god why do I live here!?!

My country is run by a moron...

Can I claim Asylum...and move back to the Uk?

[gillen.livejournal.com]

Ooooh... okay, howabout we start with Billie Piper and Kate Beckinsale and Helena Bonham Carter and-

Whaddya mean I don't get to pick??

[smarriveurr.livejournal.com]

Oh, pffft. Short memories. You buggers kidnapped our citizens during the Napoleonic Wars, and it weren't even suspected criminals! So there's your precedent. You think we forgot? HA! We're stupid, but... well. OK. We're just stupid.

[hairyears.livejournal.com]

Ask the NatWest three. Or anyone involved in online gaming companies - an activity legal in the EU - who were bundled off the plane in manacles when they caught connecting flights in the USA.

The US Department of Justice has been given the right to extradite anyone from the UK, without evidence, merely by requesting it. Needless to say, no such reciprocal right exists to extradite suspects - let alone fugitives from justice - from the USA.

There is no need for bounty hunters and abduction when they merely need to ask the authorities in England to make the arrest.

The phrase you were looking for is, "I'll be your bitch and you can call me Betty".

[s0b.livejournal.com]

I am torn.

I have known for a while about the "US Law == Global Law" thing and can't say I am a fan. However if they actually do go after those fuckers at BAE then just a little part of me wants to stand back and nod sagely.

Frankly though, with the US economy fast going down the tubes and Europe set to be The Daddy they'll have to do as they are told or face the rolled up newspaper of sanctions.

The day rap stars start putting suitcases full of Euros in their videos you'll know the end days are coming ... oh, wait

[poggs.livejournal.com]

Let us hope that this is an isolated incident of misreading the law.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

No, that's a correct reading of US law as interpreted by our Supreme Court.

[siani-hedgehog.livejournal.com]

God Bless America

(the rest of us wouldn't piss on 'em if they were on fire)

[deviantsaint.livejournal.com]

don't panic, we're only here for the suits:

"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."

and you're gingers, we' hear you don't like'em and we think they're fucking hot. We'll be back with boat for those.

-DS

[deathboy.livejournal.com]

get yer mitts off, I like the gingers!

[graylion.livejournal.com]

I am so waiting for a situation where they are abducting somebody and the olice get called in and all of a sudden the CIA dudes are facing the SAS ...

[deviantsaint.livejournal.com]

what makes you think something like that hasn't happened already?

I think the traditional method of solving those sorts of disputes is paper-rock-scissors.

[deviantsaint.livejournal.com]

you'll know when we're really up to something, we'll bring flags.

[hairyears.livejournal.com]

The word you're looking for is 'Extraterritoriality' - the sure and certain knowledge that the laws of the USA extend beyond its borders. And they do: it's a major constraint in the World's financial markets.

The only reason we don't get bounty hunters over here from over there is that they simply aren't needed...

[spiritualmonkey.livejournal.com]

We will kidnap you and bring you here to our shores to MAKE MUSIC FOR US!

[deathboy.livejournal.com]

~ I know why the caged bird sings, I know why ~

[bleedingmuffin.livejournal.com]

you mean i cant kidnap hot british men and keep them in my closet? damn..

[deathboy.livejournal.com]

if you ask nicely...