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Re: Chesterfield Lad to be Extradited to US?
« Reply #15 on: January 13, 2012, 09:09:45 PM »
Surely they can't be extradited to USA if there is no connection with USA?

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« Reply #16 on: January 13, 2012, 09:13:23 PM »
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Re: Chesterfield Lad to be Extradited to US?
« Reply #17 on: January 13, 2012, 09:18:33 PM »
Surely they can't be extradited to USA if there is no connection with USA?

Labour signed the treaty. Go back to page 1 of this thread.
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Re: Chesterfield Lad to be Extradited to US?
« Reply #18 on: January 14, 2012, 12:10:32 AM »
We've been taking up the arse by America for so long our leaders think it's part of the PM's job description...
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Re: Chesterfield Lad to be Extradited to US?
« Reply #19 on: January 14, 2012, 10:02:16 AM »
In 1968 James Earl Ray was arrested at Heathrow Airport. Can you imagine how daft it would have been to try him over here for the assassination of Martin Luther King? You should be tried in the country where the alleged crime is committed. In both this and the McKinnon case, the alleged crime was committed in the UK. Furthermore, if it isn't a crime in the UK to do what this lad did in the UK, then that's hard luck on anywhere where it is a crime, really. If what he did is a crime here, then he gets tried here, if the CPS think it is worth it.

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Re: Chesterfield Lad to be Extradited to US?
« Reply #20 on: January 14, 2012, 10:56:35 AM »
Why can't people get it through their thick heads - he did not break any laws!

Incidentally, I noticed that it was the most read story on the Guardian website, which in my opinion, is a sign of it's importance.

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I think a lot of people are just jealous that he was making money by putting adverts on the site.
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Re: Chesterfield Lad to be Extradited to US?
« Reply #21 on: January 14, 2012, 11:03:24 AM »
This is worth a read:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/dec/04/us-extradition-on-demand

I think this treaty needs to be looked at again.
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« Reply #22 on: January 14, 2012, 11:54:20 AM »
Why can't people get it through their thick heads - he did not break any laws!

Incidentally, I noticed that it was the most read story on the Guardian website, which in my opinion, is a sign of it's importance.

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I think a lot of people are just jealous that he was making money by putting adverts on the site.

Thats why I cant understand the decision.  His site was not hosting anything, they were purely links to other sites.  Apparently at one point he was making about £15k a month from adverts on his site which I think is why they are trying to get him extradited to make an example.
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« Reply #23 on: January 14, 2012, 11:54:50 AM »
Did the last Labour Gov really sign this extradition treaty. Blair, Jack Straw, Slacker ?

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It doesn't have to be a crime in the UK.

In fact, under the terms of the extradition treaty we signed - which we have ratified, but the USA chose not to! - any British person, committing any act in the UK, which would have been illegal if they'd done it in the USA, can be extradited and jailed. That includes, for example, an 18 year old boy sleeping with his 17 year old girlfriend, who could get ten years for statutory rape since the US age of consent is 18.

They don't actually go after those, but they could if they chose to, and legally there is nothing whatsoever that we could do about it.

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Re: Chesterfield Lad to be Extradited to US?
« Reply #24 on: January 14, 2012, 12:44:22 PM »
Always sticking their noses into others business anyway --- one day they will come a cropper!
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Re: Chesterfield Lad to be Extradited to US?
« Reply #25 on: January 14, 2012, 03:52:20 PM »
Oh I hope they do OC - and I hope I'm around to see it.
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« Reply #26 on: January 14, 2012, 05:51:22 PM »
The US does seem to have a strange idea of right and wrong.....and as someone else said, the biggest sin of all seems to be anti-American.

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Re: Chesterfield Lad to be Extradited to US?
« Reply #27 on: January 14, 2012, 05:55:26 PM »
Ladies and gentlemen, please allow me to introduce myself, my name is Mr Anti-American - with every fibre of my very being!

Will I get pissed on for saying that?  :)
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« Reply #28 on: January 14, 2012, 05:59:52 PM »
I recenetly saw something and can't for the life of me remember what...something fictional I think, but the author used the line "lets look at this map of the whole world" and it was a map of the USA which, though tongue in cheek, summed up their views perfectly.

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Re: Chesterfield Lad to be Extradited to US?
« Reply #29 on: January 14, 2012, 06:04:34 PM »
My favourite is when George shitforbrains Bush asked Charlotte Church where she was from. When she replied Wales, he asked what state it was in...

Most powerful man in the world at the time...
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