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From: mnl@cernvax.UUCP (mnl)
Newsgroups: net.followup,net.politics
Subject: Re: USA vs IRA?
Message-ID: <319@cernvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 22-May-86 02:53:37 EDT
Article-I.D.: cernvax.319
Posted: Thu May 22 02:53:37 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 25-May-86 13:50:05 EDT
References: <40@mit-vax.UUCP>
Reply-To: mnl@cernvax.UUCP (Mark Nelson)
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Keywords: extradition
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In article <40@mit-vax.UUCP> oaf@mit-vax.UUCP writes:
>In article <1314@rlvd.UUCP> kgd@rlvd.UUCP (Keith Dancey) writes:
>>  Your government legislates, and under its legislation it protects IRA
>>  terrorists from extradition because it holds their acts of murder
>>  as 'political'.
>> 
>>  And you know damn well that it does so because of the Irish American
>>  vote.
>		    ------------------------------
>    $50.00 to you or your favorite charity if you can name  or  number
>ANY such law in the Federal Register, Mr. Dancey.
>
>    Failing  that, I'll merely claim you're utterly wrong.  I'm trying
>to be charitable.  Earn your reward, eh?
>
I believe that you will find American laws which prohibit extradition
for "political" crimes.  However, I don't think it was Northern Ireland
and the IRA which prompted these laws, but rather other countries having
broader defintions of "political" crimes, e.g. public gatherings of
greater than 10 people, operation of an illegal printing press, and
other various things which totalitarian governments tend to outlaw.

However, I kind of wonder about the judges who ruled that this law
applys to IRA terrorists.

I think I read something in the Internation Herald-Tribune within
the past month about Britain and the U.S. being in the process of
negotiating a new extradition treaty, specifically over this issue.

-- 
Mark Nelson

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