in OUR name! (part 2)

US says it has right to kidnap British citizens
The Sunday Times
December 2, 2007
David Leppard
"AMERICA has told Britain that it can “kidnap” British citizens if they are wanted for crimes in the United States.

"A senior lawyer for the American government has told the Court of Appeal in London that kidnapping foreign citizens is permissible under American law because the US Supreme Court has sanctioned it.

"... The American government has for the first time made it clear in a British court that the law applies to anyone, British or otherwise, suspected of a crime by Washington."

This can't be right!

Again, I appeal to the Golden Rule as a sound basis for law and morality. Do we REALLY want U.S. Citizens subject to this treatment by other countries? If, by some not-that-great stretch of the imagination, one of our NATO allies determined that W was a war-criminal, does W REALLY want to worry about being whisked off to a "friendly" gulag???

Okay, forget the Golden Rule. How 'bout the U.S. Constitution?
Article VI
This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land...

I believe we have an extradition treaty with Britain!

Stop the madness!