Re: The 1st Amendment Apparently Doesn't Exist in New York Either

The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:

Fri, 14 Jun 2024 18:56:20 -0000 (UTC), Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com>:

The laws weren't "loosey goosey". There was no such extradition treaty.
Even if there had been, the United States was not enforcing any
British trade embargo against France as a matter of criminal law.

While the Royal Navy definitely WAS enforcing a British trade embargo
against France (who they were at war with), I'm pretty sure Britain
never demanded the United States do anything of the kind.

Would you please stop willfully misinterpreting what I am saying?
Extradition treaty or not, the United States will not honor an
extradition request for a criminal charge concering a crime that has no
counterpart in United States law. France was our ally. Therefore, trade
with France was not treason against the United States. That the UK was
at war with France was not our concern. Therefore an extradition request
would not have been honored by the United States for a charge of
treason against the UK.

By attacking United States shipping, even to "merely" kidnap its own
subjects intending to charge them with treason and put them on trial,
the UK had committed acts of war upon the United States.

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