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- From: hau4@ellis.uchicago.edu (sven hauptfeld)
- Subject: Re: Pardon Fischer?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.054749.23332@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
- References: <1992Dec22.011249.594@uoft02.utoledo.edu> <1992Dec28.052513.14461@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Dec28.112949.687@uoft02.utoledo.edu>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 05:47:49 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec28.112949.687@uoft02.utoledo.edu> dcrosgr@uoft02.utoledo.edu writes:
- >In article <1992Dec28.052513.14461@midway.uchicago.edu>, hau4@ellis.uchicago.edu (sven hauptfeld) writes:
- >> In article <1992Dec22.011249.594@uoft02.utoledo.edu> dcrosgr@uoft02.utoledo.edu writes:
- >>>In article <4471@cvbnetPrime.COM>, fdeming@cvbnet@prime.com (Frank Deming {x6088}) writes:
- >>>>
- > And do you think that a US
- >> citizen who kills somebody in another country would be immune of a trial by a
- >> US court?
- >>
- >> You must be either kidding or totally ignorant.
- >
- >I did not say that. But, it would be the foreign court(s) which hold
- >jurisdiction over the American citizen in that case. We might honor an
- >extradition treaty and ship the US citizzen back there for trial, but
- >we would not try the person here.
-
- Not convincing at all.
-
- >>>
- >>>Last time I checked, the U.S. constitution did NOT extend to Yugoslavia,
- >>>but maybe I have been studying the abridged version.
- >>
- >> However, the UN Charter DOES extend to Yugoslavia, which signed it and thus
- >> gave the UN the right to enforce it. The same applies to the US, which, in this
- >> case, is playing by the rules.
- >
- >Wrong. [A long tirade of legal facts with, to put it mildly, problematic
- logical connection among them, follows]
-
- No wonder we are screwed when such people become lawyers! I wouldn't be
- surprised if he goes all the way to become a SC Justice - there already are
- such boneheads on the SC...
-
- >WE HAVEN'T TRIED NAZI WAR CRIMINALS IN THE US!!! WE DON'T HAVE JURISDICTION!!!
-
- However, we tried them in the US-occupied territory. Guess under whose
- jurisdiction it was...
-
- Sven
-
-