> Suppose some American teenager comes to the Netherlands at the age of > 17. Meets somebody over 18, they have sex. That would be punishable > under US Federal Law if I understand it correctly, so this somebody > would have to be arrested as soon as he/she enters the US. Yet we > explicitly chose to allow this in the Netherlands, for our own reasons. > Or an American citizen came here to work as prostitute (s)he would be > arrested when visiting relatives for Christmas. But prostitution is also > legal here, for reasons of our choosing. > > We choose which rules there are on our territory and if those rules > allow things to be done to or by US citizens that would not be allowed > in the US maybe the US should forbid its citizens to travel here, but it > should not impose its law on our territory.
We wouldn't be imposing OUR laws on YOUR territory, we would be imposing OUR laws on OUR citizen. By being a citizen of the U.S., a person promises to abide by the laws of this country. It doesn't matter where that person commits a crime. They are knowingly breaking a law that they promised to abide by. I fail to see how you think that this affects you or your territory in any way or how you think it even has anything to do with you. I'm still confused by your line of reasoning. Todd ______________________________________________________________________ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-community@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
