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Originally Posted by danielf
Good thing that the Diplomatic and Consular Premises Act 1987 has been passed for just the purpose of extraditing alleged rapists, and not for minor incidents. It seems wholly proportional to storm the Embassy of a Sovereign Nation in order to ensure that justice is seen to be done.
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But it would no longer be deemed an Embassy of a Sovereign nation. It would just be a house.
You seem to be sarcastically implying that you consider rape to be a 'minor incident', or is that definition just reserved for 'darlings' of the left(eg Strauss-Khan, Polanski)?
Should he and others be able to get away with crimes, even ones such as murder, by simply skipping the country?
Why would the US have to manufacture a criminal offence in order to extradite him?