Extradition
The ties that bind
Britain is growing restive at its limited room for legal manoeuvre
Jan 21st 2012
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Richard O’Dwyer ran a website with links to sites offering free film and TV downloads so could face up to ten years in an American prison even though it is not clear that his behaviour constitutes an offence in Britain.
The UK seems willing to send a UK citizen to a foreign country for a legal action which a foreign power objects to. According to this doctrine, UK should send a certain Muslim writer to Iran for execution. Why stop there? UK should send all Jews to any number of countries to be killed for being Jewish, UK should surrender all protestants to Vatican to be burned as under Bloody Mary. All members of British military and all citizens of N.I. should be sent south for execution.
If any of these are objectionable to the British People, one might with to re-consider whether the special relationship with USA is comfortable.
WWII was a long time ago. UK should not have to kiss * forever.
Ugh. Why should we (American taxpayers) be having to pay to put this student in prison for ten years? This is just going to ruin his life, and be a waste of American tax dollars. The whole system is beyond flawed.
Yup, but if the UK plans to pursue a full detachment from the EU, it must pay attention not to blow up its privileged relationship with the USA.