Theres something called preventive detention for if you THINK someone is going to commit a crime
Bill Wheatley Senior Database Developer Macromedia Certified Advanced Coldfusion Developer EDIETS.COM 954.360.9022 X159 ICQ 417645 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jochem van Dieten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 4:44 PM Subject: Re: Lindh pleads guilty, won't receive life in prison > Todd wrote: > > > >>How hard would it be to come up with a situation in which US Federal Law > >>says (not) do A and the law of country X says (not) to do B? > > > > I'm not sure what you mean? > > Let's see if we can get an example. Does the Federal Law have any > article that basically says that if you have a chance of stopping > somebody from breaking the law you should? > > > >>Let's get a little bit closer to home. The DMCA is a Federal Law right? > >>If I invented some way to break the regio encoding on somebodies latest > >>DVD release while at home in order to make a backup copy for personal > >>use (a right that Dutch law explicitly grants me), I would commit a > >>crime AGAINST a US citizen. So if I ever came into the reach of the US > >>legal system, I could become prosecuted. > >> > >>Although purely hypothetical (I wouldn't actually know how to do that), > >>I don't like the idea of some other country revoking a right the country > >>that I am in has explicitly granted me. > > > > Well, don't do anything illegal against a country and then try to go to that > > country .. duh! :) > > > > Who was it that made the comment that if U.S. pilots were allowed to cary > > guns that they hoped the pilots would be arrested as soon as they arrived > > for breaking the law there? ;) > > Not me. If you mean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I specifically say > that I don't care what the US does, but that pilots should be arrested > if they carry guns while entering this country. That is something quite > different from being arrested upon entering the Netherlands 3 weeks > after carrying a gun on a flight from Boston to Chicago. > > Jochem > > ______________________________________________________________________ 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
