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Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins
There is the expectation that as a U.S. citizen travelling abroad, the U.S. will protect us from egregious foreign prosecution. When foreign law, or foreign legal processes are this far out of bed with ours and therefor violate your rights as a U.S. citizen, I believe those rights take precedence. At least I would hope they do. Membership should have its privileges...
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Then what's the point of having an extradition treaty? And how much argument do we put up when other countries refuse to extradite because they don't like our system, which happens plenty in capital cases? What rights do you have as an American in Italy other than access to our embassy and consulate? You should have no rights other than those granted by the host country. It just sounds incredibly arrogant to me that the US thinks our laws supersede those of other countries when our citizens are in those countries. And that goes for Julian Assange too. How in the world is he subject to US law, when he hasn't been to the US, isn't a US citizen and every beef we have with him happened in a third country?