lol afghan law thats an oxymoron
Bill Wheatley Senior Database Developer Macromedia Certified Advanced Coldfusion Developer EDIETS.COM 954.360.9022 X159 ICQ 417645 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jochem van Dieten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 4:40 PM Subject: Re: Lindh pleads guilty, won't receive life in prison > Bill Wheatley wrote: > > That doesn't make much sense though, I understand the reason he's being > > tried now. But if you goto Amsterdam (I think it is that country :) ) and > > pot is legal and you get high ITS not illegal there. The Us has 0 right to > > do anything to you because you were in a country where it was legal. > > I know of several people that came to the Netherlands, did exactly that, > and were arrested, charged and sentenced upon return to their own country. > But that makes sense, because it is actually illegal in the Netherlands. > > > > FIGHTING us forces is against the US so of course its illegal and punishable > > I am looking for the reason behind the "of course". > > > > but if pedophilia is legal somewhere you go there and you do it fine cause > > its outside of the US jurisdiction and its not doing any harm to anything in > > the US. > > > > But then I could be wrong > > The way it works here is dual punishability. If something is punishable > in the country where it is done by a Dutch citizen and it is illegal > here as well, the Dutch Department of Justice will put in a request to > transfer the case to its jurisdiction. It is up to the other country to > honour or deny that request. > But I doubt what Lindh did was illegal under Afghan law at that time. > > Jochem > > ______________________________________________________________________ Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
