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Article #144Re: Hey, I know -- let's threaten the president in e-mail!
From: Peter Bruells
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 14:12
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 14:12
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>>>>> "John" == John Stewart <aa088@freenet.carleton.ca> writes:
In article <aa088.766158686@freenet2> aa088@freenet.carleton.ca (John Stewart) writes:
John> In <2oe52a$n7q@indial1.io.com> shiva@indial1.io.com (Earl
John> 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).
John> Perhaps, but in the case of Canada it would make more sense
John> to make use of the extradition treaty between the US and
John> Canada.
John> There was a case several years ago where the State of
John> Florida sent a couple of bounty hunters to Canada to
John> retrieve a Canadian who was charged with fraud in Florida.
John> What the bounty hunters did in Canada is considered under
John> Canadian law to be kidnapping. Proceedings were started to
John> extradite the bounty hunters back to Canada to face trial,
John> but they voluntarily chose to come to Canada before the
John> extradition process was completed. I don't know what
John> sentence, if any, the bounty hunters received.
John> It seems quite likely that a Canadian uttering death threats
John> to the President of the United States could be extradited to
John> face trial in the US.
Do you mean that the US (or Canada) would extradite their own
citiziens??? Anglo-Saxon law is even weirder than I imagined....
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