I’m just pissed you got there first.
And yet rarely does it include any acknowledgement of the US’s role in protecting terrorist child killers from British law. But I guess if people have cute Irish accents it’s OK to give them safe refuge.
Just for the record, I don’t entirely disagree with this. I can see instances where it’s the least worst option. That already happens. But if you give every dictator a place to go where he can live out his last couple of years in luxury after oppressing a country for several decades, you’ll never get one of them on trial again. It’s practically a reward.
No, not France – French Morocco.
Yes, I know that French Morocco and the Casablanca of expatriated whosits exists only in memory, but for the likes of Ben Ali and Amin, I’m OK with that.
Very true. Which is why I don’t support an official policy or even an unofficial one like the nazi’s fleeing to South America. Just saying, in some situations, if the EU or US or someone negotiated a peaceful ending to a crisis by letting a dictator retire without prosecution, well, SOMETIMES that’s probably the best things are going to get.
I much prefer Spain or Germany prosecuting foreign dictators under “crimes against humanity” charges to certain other countries just abducting foreign citizens and throwing them in secret jails.
Even better, of course, would it be to let the ICC handle that, but that would require certain countries to submit to it and to give it some teeth.
So you’re proposing that, under a hypothetical malevolent world government, it should be the most notoriously guilty individuals who are shielded?
I want every tyrant to have at least a whisper of fear in his heart, fear that he will be called to account, every day of his life, until he breathes his last.
Get your filthy hands off my desert!
Are you claiming that France hasn’t served as a refuge for multiple former dictators and at least one convicted rapist?
As for Jerry Lewis, we’re all to blame. Especially Dean Martin for making Lewis seem funny.
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