"Palindrome" wrote in message
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> Colonel Colt wrote:
>> "Palindrome" wrote in message
>> news:ZVfVj.241310$i_6.130753@fe06.news.easynews.com...
>>> 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?
>>
>>
>>
> Because this would be a *reciprocal* arrangement and their nationals would
> not be able to come here, commit offences here and return home without
> risk of trial or punishment.
>
You are living in cloud cuckoo land. The chances that the British state
would imprison a gay man in the UK because he had . with a man in Saudi
Arabia, or indeed extradite him to Saudi, is ZERO.
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