Two U.S. Air Marshals arrested the wife of a Brazilian judge. They were then arrested by Brazilian authorities, and had their travel documents confiscated. But ahoy! They had alternate documents, and snuck out of the country the same day, because they thought the charges were trumped up.
So hey. Anyone notice anything fishy happening here? Two United States law enforcement officers evading punishment because they believe they have the right to decide whether the charges being brought against them are valid or not? What the hell gives them the right to decide? Last I checked, whether you're in Brazil or the United States, you can't dodge the police when you're arrested just because you believe the charges are trumped up.
But the air marshals did. And now, we have a sticky situation between the governments of the United States & Brazil on our hands. U.S. officials, however, have sided with the marshals (surprise, eh?) and issued a statement saying that they believe the marshals acted appropriately in leaving Brazil. Right. So evading law enforcement is okay now, right? Last I checked, it was a felony. Wake up.
5 comments:
Firstly, are we supposed to be siding with foreign governments or our own? If one were to dig deeper into the relationship between the U.S. and Brazil they would find that relations are tense as it is, seeing as over 66 American children have been abducted and taken to Brazil and Brazil has continued to resist U.S. demands to return it's citizens. Considering this, I don't know how fair of a trial these U.S. Air Marshals would have received. Besides, we currently don't entirely know much information surrounding this specific incident, and any attempt to make any premature conclusions would not be wise.
So your conclusion is that instead of letting due process of law carry itself out, people should be allowed to wholly bypass the law? I agree that making premature decisions might not be wise, but it really seems that the marshals just had suspicions that the trial would be unfair. And man, how many trials nowadays are unfair anyway? Oh... wait.
You know, I just suddenly had a change of heart. We SHOULD allow foreign nations to unfairly prosecute our nations citizens. In fact, from now on I believe that we should let the two U.S. citizens in Pakistan go through the undiscriminating-all-righteous due process of their law systems. AND, on top of that, we should also go to the nations where U.S. agents and soldiers have escaped, return all of these people for their "fair trial", and just forget about all of the others who still remain incarcerated(this should be a sufficient answer to your question). My point is, yes we should allow U.S. "people" to "WHOLLY bypass the law" in nations where they can't receive a fair trial. Don't you? Oh... wait.
Because we obviously have sufficient evidence that these air marshals did nothing wrong whatsoever right? Because air marshals being arrested for a misdemeanor is the same thing as journalists who are sentenced to years and years of hard labor in foreign countries, right? Oh... wait.
I think this is ridiculous!!! Why would the marshals think that they could just leave the country because they thought that the charges against them were wrong? I think that they were obviously NOT thinking about the trouble they would be causing the U.S. due to their actions. However, it does not suprise me that the U.S. backed them up when they agreed with the marshals in stating that the charges that the marshals were faced with were wrong. Typical. ha.
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