Author Topic: Chesterfield Lad to be Extradited to US?  (Read 34478 times)

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Re: Chesterfield Lad to be Extradited to US?
« Reply #30 on: January 15, 2012, 09:36:10 AM »
I know this will sound like nothing but another conspiracy theory, but I think this was a done deal before they
even made this extradition order official. This is a scape goat case and nothing else, which means that this guy
didn't stand a chance. Since the judge bent backwards so easily, in spite that there was no reason to prosecute
in this country, it stinks.
They could've knocked down Google instead, but they didn't because it's a multi-billion dollar company that are
paying taxes in the US.

Whatever the discussions were when they decided on that treaty between the US and UK (I scratch yours and you
scratch mine?), it was obvious that it would be abused at some point.

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Re: Chesterfield Lad to be Extradited to US?
« Reply #31 on: January 15, 2012, 09:42:50 AM »
>> Whatever the discussions were when they decided on that treaty between the US and UK (I scratch yours and you
scratch mine?), it was obvious that it would be abused at some point.

Yep - I'd also like to know what was going on with our government to give away our sovereignty in such a one-sided deal.
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« Reply #32 on: January 15, 2012, 09:50:00 AM »
Yep - I'd also like to know what was going on with our government to give away our sovereignty in such a one-sided deal.

The usual - they rather protect their own back than care about the people they should serve. And they never think further
than 4 years ahead. I think politicians have some sort of built-in block that prevents them from planning for more than the
term they're in power....and that's when they plan their own future and nothing else.

A decision like this treaty should not have been signed without a vote from the public. It's that easy.

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Re: Chesterfield Lad to be Extradited to US?
« Reply #33 on: January 15, 2012, 10:01:33 AM »
When do the public ever get a vote/say on something like this ?
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christa

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« Reply #34 on: January 15, 2012, 10:04:50 AM »
When do the public ever get a vote/say on something like this ?

When I asked Robin the same thing, he said "never".

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« Reply #35 on: January 15, 2012, 12:03:06 PM »
I'm not supporting the Govt or US on this, but the issue is often portrayed in the media as being one sided. In actual fact, the US has never rejected any of the UK claims for extradition under these rules where as the UK as rejected 7, (I think) applications from the US.
So I don't think its one sided but as I said earlier, the US have a strange sense of right and wrong, often going after petty misdemeanors while their citizens go around shooting each other.

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« Reply #36 on: January 15, 2012, 07:59:37 PM »
If he'd set up a website selling weapons good old US of A wouldn't have blinked an eye

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« Reply #37 on: January 15, 2012, 09:42:52 PM »
Last Labour Government, Bend over and drop your your pants.
As much as I hate her, bring back Maggie.

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« Reply #38 on: January 18, 2012, 07:54:50 PM »
Radical cleric’s deportation ruled out on grounds that he didn’t infringe US copyright laws

Radical cleric Abu Qatada has won his appeal against deportation from the UK to Jordan at the European Court of Human Rights after it transpired that he didn’t make the same mistake as Sheffield student Richard O’Dwyer, and infringe any US copyright laws.

http://www.newsthump.com/2012/01/17/radical-clerics-deportation-ruled-out-on-grounds-that-he-didnt-infringe-us-copyright-laws/

A story that simultaneously makes me laugh, feel sad and feel angry...

Hat tip to Caesar :)
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« Reply #41 on: January 25, 2012, 10:07:51 PM »
The yanks seem to be getting tough

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« Reply #42 on: January 31, 2012, 01:23:58 PM »
Apparently Obama was questioned about this last night. No definitive answers (he's a politician right?) but all publicity helps Richard's case.

Story here - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-16806025
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« Reply #43 on: February 07, 2012, 06:59:25 AM »

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Re: Chesterfield Lad to be Extradited to US?
« Reply #44 on: March 13, 2012, 06:42:51 PM »
Richard's appeal has failed, Teresa May, the Home Secretary, has sanctioned the extradition order.

If you went to Google and searched for film/tv/music downloads you'd find hundreds - so why isn't Google, an American company, based in America, in the dock? Because they are big, cash rich and American. Richard is small, not very well off and British.

It's time this country stopped be a yes man to America.
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