Apparently this woman is completely deluded as to her social or official status. In a 911 call the other day to complain about all the press descending on her home, she told the dispatcher:
Link. I wonder if she’s also an honorary Junior Park Ranger, with all the rights and honors accorded thereby. This gave me the best laugh I’ve had all week.
This whole thing is playing out like a Coen brothers farce.
It’s funnier than Burn After Reading, actually, even though it’s not as dark.
Apparently “honorary counsel” is an actual diplomatic position, and Jill Kelley really does hold the position for S. Korea (presumably obtained for her by one of her four-star boy toys). And there’s at least some argument that she might’ve been entitled to some diplomatic protection as such.
So whose goofy now!*
*still Jill Kelley, but in this particular case she isn’t quite as goofy as one might think.
I think the “inviolability” claim trumps whatever factual content the call may have contained. Inviolability?
I dunno. She might be right. Or at least, I don’t think she was being totally rudiculous to suggest the idea.
Googling further. An Honorary Consul appears to get some diplomatic immunity, but only for actions related to her position. And while she certainly isn’t inviolate in the same sense as an actual consul, some stuff related to her post (papers, etc) is.
I can’t find anything about the house of an Honorary Conselor getting any sort of special protection (and I’m sure its not inviolate), but it wouldn’t really surprise me if there was some instances where it would be entitled to some limited privileges.
I think the sketchy thing is that Kelley had the position in the first place, rather then her attempts to use it to keep the press of her lawn.
But if she did have any sort of immunity or inviolability or whatever, that would only apply when she’s in the country that she’s been appointed to (South Korea), right? When she’s in the USA she’s just an ordinary citizen. The USA Ambassador to Russia doesn’t have Diplomatic Immunity when he’s back in the USA.
the State Department says she has no connection with them.
this honorary status came from some part of the military as a thank you.
She’s S. Korea’s Honorary Counsel to the US, not the other way around.
Seems not uncommon for Honorary Counsel’s to be citizens of the host country. But they’re usually people who have some sort of connection to the country they’re supposed to be counsels for (immigrants from that country, business dealing there, spouse from that country, etc.)
So far as I can tell, Kelley doesn’t have any connection to S. Korea. Hence the suspicion she got one of her General “friends” to pull some strings and get it for her.
I don’t think that’s true. The job has no pay, but you get a fancy ID badge and license plate, and it requires the confirmation from both the country your Counsel for and the US State Dept. Kelley has the plate, and the S. Korean gov’t seems pretty convinced she was appointed through the normal process, so I’d be pretty surprised if the State Dept. didn’t sign off on her at some point.
Seems likely someone in the US military pulled some strings to get her the “job”. But officially, it has to come from the State Dept.
From the State Department:
What is official acts immunity? To summarize, it means that they can’t be ordered to testify, produce documents, or similar things that relate to the performance of their duties for the sponsoring country. They can be arrested, their personal property is not protected, they have to pay their speeding tickets, and so on. Even real consular officers don’t have the same immunities as actual diplomats.
In short, the claim that she has special priviledges is laughable, except for one narrow area in that police can’t seize any South Korean records she may happen to hold.
In any case I’m betting that she isn’t going to be Honorary Consul for much longer.
Like the Long Jump?
There was a thing out yesterday by the South Koreans saying that they were monitoring the situation and would strip her of the position if she proved to be a problem.
The bones jump is more like it. The woman is a tedious wannabe.
Is this the same Jill Kelly whose performance I enjoyed so much in Sodomania Slop Shots 10?
I’m calling it now: she’s some sort of madame to a high ranking military only call-girl service.
If that’s the case, maybe she should put her twin sister to work, as sis is over $3,000,000 in debt, yet apparently still has a taste for the high life.
No, but there’s a good chance you’ll see her in one of the sequels.