Ko0K on 29/9/2009 at 03:41

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:laff:

Oh, man... So, was it one at a time, or was it 'fingercuff' style for SE?

demagogue on 29/9/2009 at 04:51

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I remember when we studied the Rainbow Warrior case. My int'l law professor was from New Zealand and was merciless. He enjoyed telling us how they were caught because, after the incident, they stayed and took a fucking vacation in NZ (!?) and two yokels noticed them driving by and one said (the prof going into thick dialect on us) "Hey, those them Frenchie besterds that blew up that shiip?" and wrote their license plate number down in the dirt caked on their jeep (which the prof took a certain pride in). Then the French balked at every step on the extradition and when they were finally "exiled" to an island post, I think it was within a year that one was allowed back to France because she got pregnant and the other had "a bad tummy ache" as he put it. Really one of those stories that's hard to invent it's so hairbrained, but to listen to him tell the story was something else.

David on 29/9/2009 at 18:03

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lol.

SubJeff on 29/9/2009 at 21:06

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Well done on missing the point Koyla. Par for the course, natch

Oh whatever. I posted it, you quoted it and raged on it.

I accept that it is a trite saying. No doubt about it. But only when someone just spouts it for no good reason, without understanding the facts. I could easily have been far more verbose but given the circumstances it fits. This guy committed a crime and for some unholy reason he has backers saying he should be let off for. What reasons? Nothing that really has any bearing on the case.

I'm not "vindictive" on this issue, I just see it as fairly clear-cut. Get him to the USA and allow the legal machinations to spew whatever verdict it will. If the case is dismissed or he is found innocent I won't blink but he should at least have to answer for what happened.

Zygoptera on 29/9/2009 at 23:10

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And that's without mentioning that the actual bomb squad supposedly had to scuttle their yacht in the Pacific when the Australians started looking for them, and get rescued by a nuclear submarine (!) The whole thing would have been absolutely hilarious, had someone not died.

[edit]We're quite weird in our effectiveness against espionage types. We caught (and convicted) two Mossad agents a couple of years ago trying to get fake NZ passports, based on someone randomly finding that one of the passports was for someone who was dead.