{"id":20,"date":"2007-12-10T01:07:54","date_gmt":"2007-12-10T01:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.guamnesty.org.uk\/blog\/2007\/12\/us-claims-right-to-kidnap-british-citizens\/"},"modified":"2007-12-10T13:13:51","modified_gmt":"2007-12-10T13:13:51","slug":"us-claims-right-to-kidnap-british-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.guamnesty.org.uk\/2007\/12\/us-claims-right-to-kidnap-british-citizens\/","title":{"rendered":"US: We Have The Right To Kidnap British Citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A senior lawyer representing the US government has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/world\/us_and_americas\/article2982640.ece\">declared<\/a> that a Supreme Court ruling allows the kidnap of British citizens wanted for crimes in America. Although the &#8216;extraordinary rendition&#8217; of terror suspects was already known, this claim makes the asserts that the US can forcibly take people wanted in a non-terror connection.<\/p>\n<p>Alun Jones QC, representing the US Government, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cThe United States does have a view about procuring people to its own shores which is not shared&#8230; If you kidnap a person outside the United States and you bring him there, the court has no jurisdiction to refuse \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u009d it goes back to bounty hunting days in the 1860s.\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Shami Chakrabarti, director of the human rights group Liberty, called for a review of the law<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cThis law may date back to bounty hunting days, but they should sort it out if they claim to be a civilised nation.\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to editorialise again: I thought interfering with foreign nationals (especially on their own soil) outwith established legal protocols was an act of war? I mean, if <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/americas\/5068606.stm\">suicide<\/a> is an act of war, isn&#8217;t this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A senior lawyer representing the US government has declared that a Supreme Court ruling allows the kidnap of British citizens wanted for crimes in America. Although the &#8216;extraordinary rendition&#8217; of terror suspects was already known, this claim makes the asserts that the US can forcibly take people wanted in a non-terror connection. Alun Jones QC, <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guamnesty.org.uk\/2007\/12\/us-claims-right-to-kidnap-british-citizens\/\"><br \/>read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[11],"tags":[40,39,38],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hmuU-k","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.guamnesty.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.guamnesty.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.guamnesty.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.guamnesty.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.guamnesty.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.guamnesty.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.guamnesty.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.guamnesty.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.guamnesty.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}