In message , Palindrome
writes
>Mike_B wrote:
>>>>>
>>>> It is common sense that local laws should apply locally. Not that
>>>>foreign laws should be enforceable here for an action which isn't an
>>>>offence here.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I don't think that you will find many people that agree that
>>>foreigners should be able to come here, break laws but escape
>>>punishment - simply by returning home to a country which doesn't have
>>>such laws.
>>>
>> Really? So tell me, next time my partner of 14 years and I go to
>>visit friends in Bahrain and have . in our hotel room, when we get
>>back should we hand ourselves in to the police and should we be
>>prosecuted here in the UK for breaking Bahrain law?
>>
>
>If you have that little respect for Bahrain's laws - then don't go
>there. Or go there with a Diplomatic Immunity and/or an army and/or as
>part of an emergency relief effort under the auspices of an
>organisation that has demanded that its staff will not be subject to
>local laws.
>
>
Great dodge of the question, but not an answer. When I pop down to my
local plod shop in town to hand myself in, what do you think would be
the appropriate charge and punishment for my heinous crime of sleeping
with my partner?
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Mike_B |