Am I missing something here?

[BREWSTERS]

Briton sells (or doesn't sell) arms to Iran.

Where does the US come into this? WTF does the US have to do with that? Why have we sent this guy out there? If he has broken a law of this country, why isn't he being tried here? And if he hasn't, why have we sent him over there?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17266000

 

[websaway]

Briton sells (or doesn't sell) arms to Iran.

Where does the US come into this? WTF does the US have to do with that? Why have we sent this guy out there? If he has broken a law of this country, why isn't he being tried here? And if he hasn't, why have we sent him over there?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17266000

I must say it all seems to be very harsh, he's been fighting extradition for six years. They must want to get to the bottom of something.

 

[tifosi]

Its because the last government in a vain attempt to brown nose our 'special pals' across the ocean signed up for an amazingly one-sided extradition treaty whereby a UK citizen can be extradited to the US without being charged with a UK crime simply to stand trial in the US.

It's an absolute travesty of UK justice and should be repealed asap. If there was one (among many) laws that show just how bad they were this is it. Like the digital ecomomy bill it was railroaded through.

 

[anthony]

It isn't anywhere as near as one-sided as the british press like to portray. To quote from the US Embassy site in London following last years' UK review:

"The United States has not denied a single extradition request from the UK under the treaty. While the U.S. does send more extradition requests to the UK than it receives, this difference is largely due to the differences in the size of the respective populations. The panel report notes that the U.S. has a population about five times the size of the UK, but there have been fewer than twice the number of people extradited to the U.S. than to the UK. The number of U.S. requests is not disproportionate."

THE UK Govenment report into our arrangements is quite clear about how balanced the treaty is:
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/publications/police/operational-policing/extradition-review?view=Binary

And in typical US good manners, they politely miss out the fact the the UK have denied US requests on numerous occasions.

As for Mr Tappin, he's been treated very fairly indeed. If he's innocent, he'll have plenty of opportunity to prove it. But if he's found guilty, I trust he'll get a sentence he therefore deserves. I don't want to read all this 65 year old grandad, member of the local golf club crap, I want to know if he can prove he was legally supplying weapons components to Iran or not.

 

[newguy]

"Typical US good manners" . Thanks for the good laugh this early in the morning, intentional or otherwise.

 

[BREWSTERS]

It isn't anywhere as near as one-sided as the british press like to portray. To quote from the US Embassy site in London following last years' UK review:

"The United States has not denied a single extradition request from the UK under the treaty. While the U.S. does send more extradition requests to the UK than it receives, this difference is largely due to the differences in the size of the respective populations. The panel report notes that the U.S. has a population about five times the size of the UK, but there have been fewer than twice the number of people extradited to the U.S. than to the UK. The number of U.S. requests is not disproportionate."

THE UK Govenment report into our arrangements is quite clear about how balanced the treaty is:
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/publications/police/operational-policing/extradition-review?view=Binary

And in typical US good manners, they politely miss out the fact the the UK have denied US requests on numerous occasions.

As for Mr Tappin, he's been treated very fairly indeed. If he's innocent, he'll have plenty of opportunity to prove it. But if he's found guilty, I trust he'll get a sentence he therefore deserves. I don't want to read all this 65 year old grandad, member of the local golf club crap, I want to know if he can prove he was legally supplying weapons components to Iran or not.

What next? Dale Winton being extradited to Sudan for being gay?

If they haven't broken a law of this country, how can we send them?

Besides, where do you reckon the Taliban got there weapons from? Pot calling the kettle black.

 

[Aegean]

Besides, where do you reckon the Taliban got there weapons from? Pot calling the kettle black.

Ah yes Brewsters, but we western countries wouldn't be able to maintain our rigorous double-standards if we didn't do stuff like that.

 

[BREWSTERS]

Ah yes Brewsters, but we western countries wouldn't be able to maintain our rigorous double-standards if we didn't do stuff like that.

True, true! ;-)