[Info-vax] Goodbye VAX

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/11/2022 8:14 PM, Chris Townley wrote:
> On 11/01/2022 23:56, Dave Froble wrote:
>> On 1/11/2022 6:36 PM, Chris Townley wrote:
>>> On 11/01/2022 23:20, Dave Froble wrote:
>>>> On 1/11/2022 1:59 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>>>> There are also some rumours that the UK government let her leave in
>>>>> order to avoid an incident.
>>>>
>>>> And there would be an incident.  Diplomatic immunity is one of the 
>>>> lubricants
>>>> to international relations.
>>>
>>> But a killer should be subject to the penalties of that under the law.
>>
>> I suggest you research diplomatic immunity, wikipedia has some 
>> information, then reconsider your statement.
>>
>> I may not seem "right" at times, but there are good reasons, rather 
>> important reasons.
> 
> Thank you, but  am very familiar with diplomatic immunity. But when a 
> junior officers wife kills a young child by driving on the wrong side of 
> the road, she is a killer - and one without diplomatic immunity - she 
> deserves the full force of the law.

Diplomatic immunity has to cover all crimes - otherwise it would
be difficult to find diplomats willing to go
to the worst dictatorships around the world. They would not have
any moral trouble creating a fake murder charge.

But note that diplomatic immunity does not mean that they
automatically go free - it just means that decision about how
to handle it goes to their home country not the country where
they live as diplomat (or family to diplomat).

Their home country can decide to let them be prosecuted. Typical
that require confidence in that the crime was real and that the
court system will provide a fair trial. It has happened in the
past.

So it is all up to the US in this case.

Arne

PS: The "young child" was 19. It does not really change anything, but
     I don't think it is appropriate to call a young man at age 19 for
     "young child".