XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, sci.math   
   From: kludge@panix.com   
      
   Cryptoengineer   wrote:   
   >Look, if Putin can visit the US with impunity, Netanyahu certainly   
   >can. Mamdani can't override diplomatic immunity granted by the   
   >State Department. Note that the US has never agreed to be bound   
   >by the decisions of the ICC.   
      
   This is sad but true, and we have had plenty of folks just as bad   
   come to visit the US before without issue.  It's a shame but it's true.   
      
   >Netanyhu is a monster, but if he ever gets out of office, he's   
   >going to be tried in Israel, and probably wind up in jail there.   
   >   
   >There are a number of authoritarian leaders at the moment who   
   >are 'riding the tiger', and if they ever dismount, will have a   
   >very bad time.   
      
   The key is to have a lot of money stashed offshore so that when the house   
   of cards collapses you can leave the country and live comfortably off your   
   ill-gotten gains.  It worked great for Baby Doc and all of his friends,   
   for Idi Amin, for Ferdinand Marcos, Charles Taylor, Mobutu... they all do it.   
   --scott   
      
      
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   >pt   
      
      
   --   
   "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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