Claes Persson wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: al winslow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 11:45 PM
> Subject: RE: {W&P} SV: SV: VB: [actionnow] Digest Number 831
>
>
> Al Winslow wrote:
>
> >
> > It definitely is my choice. I'm pleased that the Senate and the
> > President have chosen not to join this assault on national sovereignty.
> >
> > Any American who is _in_ America can be extradited to be prosecuted,
> > just as it has always been. It has to be done through US courts where
> > evidence has to be presented under rules that protect the accused
> > individual. We are not going to allow foreigners to sweep aside our
> > hard-won protections of accused citizens.
> >
> > The trouble will come when an American is kidnapped in some foreign
> > country to be tried in The Netherlands for alledged crimes committed in
> > still another country. For example, a US citizen is grabbed in Belgium
> > to be tried in Holland for alledged crimes committed in South Africa.
> >
> > How the US will react to such an act is unknown. I hope it never happens
> >
> > because there are many Americans who would consider such abduction of
> > Americans to be tried under a treaty to which we are not a party to be
> > an act of war.
> >
>
> --It's the words of an arrogant superpower. As I said: You have to live
> with it and live with what people in the rest of the world think of such
> a stand. End of subject.
>
> Claes Persson
> SWEDEN
> §( :8-)
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No, it's the word from a country that isn't going to allow anyone to
abduct its citizens and subject them to politically-motivated
prosecutions.
Al Winslow
USA
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