"Palindrome" wrote in message
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> Colonel Colt wrote:
>> "Palindrome" wrote in message
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>>> If you go abroad and break laws in a foreign country, you should expect
>>> to suffer the consequences - whether they be imposed via that country's
>>> legal system or your own.
>>>
>> Rubbish. If you get caught in the country where you committed the
>> offence then of course you may be punished for it there. But not
>> necessarily if you return here. In many muslim countries, it is a
>> criminal offence for a man to have . with a man. Should a man that
>> committed that offence but who managed to escape to the UK, be prosecuted
>> for it in a British court, or extradicted back to the muslim country?
>>
>>
> "If you have that little respect for their 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."
>
Do please stop evading the question. This is not question about the
advisibleness of putting yourself in that position in the first place; the
question is whether the British legal system should act as a proxy to
enforce punishments against actions which are not offences in our legal
system.
> Yep, provided that the individual will get a fair trial, does not impose
> cruel and inhuman punishments, etc then , ship them back.
>
Why should our legal system expend any time and money on extraditing someone
for something that is not an offence in the UK?
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