Here we go again, another Brit extradited across the pond for an offense committed in the UK...?

And yet they let their soldier kill little girls in their beds at night, won't say who he is, and have no intentions of handing him over for rightful justice to the Afghani authorities. Double standards alright, it makes me sick! I hope Cameron tells them to go and screw themselves.... But we all know he'll kiss Obumma's jacksey.

The real outrage is that the US is the only nation allowed this right. There is a loophole here that allows some who violate other countries to get away with it.

The scenario is where there is an incident that is not an offence in the home state, but has affected and offended a foreign nation. A similar scenario would be, for example, if someone burnt a Qu'ran in Texas, which has caused gross offence in places where this is punishable by fatwa.

The procedure should be handled by a special diplomatic court administered by the home nation. A diplomat from the offended country is entitled to start proceedings against someone, and there should be a proper defence, according to the legal principes of the home nation. If it can be proved beyond reasonable doubt that the incident has caused such offence as to damage relations with the two countries, only then should the home nation order extradition to be tried according to the laws of the offended nation. If it cannot, or the home nation refuses a trial, then the Embassy of the offended nation has the option either of imposing sanctions or withdrawing the application.

The important thing is that there should be a trial in the home nation before any extradition.

The problem comes when any sanctions harm the home nation more than the offending nation. An offending nation powerful enough can tell anyone to get stuffed, which is roughly what the Americans seem to be doing when it comes to their own citizens or corporations committing outrages against foreign interests. The villagers in Bhopal still have not been compensated for their suffering under an American pesticide corporation. That family in Afghanistan massacred by a crazed murderer allowed to carry a gun and take part in a sensitive diplomatic mission is given by the US President a quick "sorry" in between a good meal and a basketball game with his chum David Cameron.

The Americans are not the only ones capable of this. One answer above me rightly points out a scam banker bolting for cover in London when caught fingering the till in the US. No extradition here, alas, because the British love their bonus bankers, since they have precious little else left to live on.

The only way to deal with this is for an alliance to be formed sufficient to make the Americans (or the Chinese, or anyone else) to take notice and take heed to justice.

Edit - just spotted this: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/thousands-join-save-the-h...

It seems an American corporation from Hollywood representing American owners of brand names and claiming the rights to exclusive use of various characters created by British author JRR Tolkein, is now demanding that a landlord in Southampton (England) changes the name of the Hobbit pub or face reprisals..

Is there another Special Relationship extradition on its way?

What has the BNP got to say about yet another American expropriation of a British icon?

The extradition treaties the us has with other countries always contain a clause that states someone can be extradited to the us if the crime had any impact on us society. This is the clause they got Howard 'mr Nice" Marks on. If they think the crime had an effect on us society they have a claim for extradition.

This doesn't mean they are always successful as the process has to go through the country of residencies court service before they are extradited.

Not one single treaty has a reciprocal clause which makes you wonder why. This is the reason that no us soldiers will stand trial for murdering British service personnel with "blue on blue fire" in Iraq or Afghanistan.

I would expect nothing less from a country where you can get 20-life on a supply charge for possession of 2 joints

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Its a small world these days, computers have made criminal activity in one country liable to censure in another,, those people who break the law, should get what they deserve.. whether here in the UK or elsewhere. Perhaps at some point in the future when enough people have been extradited in both directions , people will finally understand that if you break the law then you will pay for it.. and then may be the penny will drop and people wont break the law.

Any chance of Extraditing Murdoch to the UK over the Phone Hacking scandal. He is CEO he is somewhat responsible.

We should go in to USA and get Bradley Manning then!!!!! Gggrrrr, I can;t stand even thinking about the terrible double standards of that damn country, I hope more than anything, they receive the full and complete judgement when this is all over!!!!

We remember what you Brits did at AIG in the UK to us.

Americans forget that AIG used its UK office to administer the derivatives to escape US regulations.

Then the UK blocked us from going after the bonuses they made doing it.

I wonder what charge they can think up for cameron now he is over there.

hope it is one that will get him a minimum of 50 years.

What gave you the right to the British Empire? Stop complaining.