Two U.S. air marshals who arrested the wife of a Brazilian judge on a flight to Rio de Janeiro -- and were themselves arrested and had their passports confiscated by Brazilian authorities -- fled the country using alternate travel documents rather than face what they believed to be trumped-up charges, sources said. [More]It actually sounds like they were in the right, and we know how corrupt and unjust foreign laws are.
So can "We the People" also skip out, and trust our government to take care of things for us? As opposed to, you know, upholding the foreign conviction to strip us forever of a right their only instruction on is not to infringe...?
Ha!
As I've noted before:
The unspoken danger, aside from the outrageousness of this intentional legal paradox, is the practical effect that foreign law trumps the Bill of Rights in the eyes of the court. Spreading the gospel in China is also equivalent to a felony, or violating Sharia "law" in Saudi Arabia...It's the law!
Unless, you're an "Only One," apparently...
[Via William T]
2 comments:
Gee, may I please have a set of those alternate travel documents?!
Sam
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sounds to me like they did what anyone should do to any government bureaucrat: tell them whatever they want to hear to get them off your back, then just go about your life.
too bad they're still a couple of insecure nonces, going around arresting women.
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