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Article #121Re: Hey, I know -- let's threaten the president in e-mail!
From: John Stewart
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 1994 13:51
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 1994 13:51
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In <2oe52a$n7q@indial1.io.com> shiva@indial1.io.com (Earl Cooley) writes: >The United States Supreme Court has ruled that it is legal for US Law >Enforcement people to kidnap and bring into the country foreign nationals >for trial under US law. Not even foreign heads of state are immune (like >Noreiga, for example). Perhaps, but in the case of Canada it would make more sense to make use of the extradition treaty between the US and Canada. There was a case several years ago where the State of Florida sent a couple of bounty hunters to Canada to retrieve a Canadian who was charged with fraud in Florida. What the bounty hunters did in Canada is considered under Canadian law to be kidnapping. Proceedings were started to extradite the bounty hunters back to Canada to face trial, but they voluntarily chose to come to Canada before the extradition process was completed. I don't know what sentence, if any, the bounty hunters received. It seems quite likely that a Canadian uttering death threats to the President of the United States could be extradited to face trial in the US. -- John Stewart -- News Administrator, National Capital Freenet Internet: aa088@freenet.carleton.ca or Mr.Canoehead@algonquin.carleton.ca "We love Canada. They've got lots of debt and will tax their people to death to pay it." -- London Financier
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