One should not get into a trash talking contest with Trump. https://t.co/vndxrn3xxn
— TSB (@TweetingTSB) November 6, 2024
From deep inside the foundations of our Republic's capital city
One should not get into a trash talking contest with Trump. https://t.co/vndxrn3xxn
— TSB (@TweetingTSB) November 6, 2024
Batshit Bonkers Britain: GOD BLESS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA pic.twitter.com/xckWpKlABD
— Katie Hopkins (@KTHopkins) November 6, 2024
I just wish the academics who talk about “fascism” day in and day out could expand their alarmist repertoire even a tiny bit, if only to make the discourse less boring. Here’s one suggestion (just to help articulate a view I emphatically do *not* share): a much more interesting…
— Adrian Vermeule (@Vermeullarmine) November 5, 2024
A single squirrel is going to have more impact on the American political system than the official Libertarian Party has in the last 50 years.
— John Ekdahl (@JohnEkdahl) November 2, 2024
Both public and press seem fundamentally bored with our Agent Double O Aspergers, despite how the tabloid build-up of this case featured endless repetition of the terms 'intelligence soldier,' secret services, Official Secrets Act, SAS, and much more of an equally lurid appeal.
Have the West Mercia Police lost all appreciation of the desperado they have taken in? I hope they're keeping him under constant observation in their most Mission Impossible type escape-proof cell, because I shudder to think what capabilities an 'intelligence solider' from the Texas National Guard could bring to bear on a rinky-dink police lock-up. (Check out the original movie in the Rambo franchise if you want details.)
By the way, how unusual is it for the U.S. to agree to the extradition of a citizen to the UK for criminal prosecution? Not unusual in the least, it turns out. In fact, with the sole exception of the immune diplomat in the Harry Dunn case, the U.S. has approved every single extradition request from the UK.
You can find this statement in the record of a question period in Parliament from 2020:
"Since the [current extradition] treaty came into force [in 2007], the United States has never refused to extradite somebody sought by the U.K."
That sounds definitive. So then, you might wonder, why does the Dunn family's spokesman and brain trust keep saying the opposite? From the Daily Mirror's story:
He said: “We all know America is highly reluctant to extradite nationals and we have had to move heaven and Earth to make that happen. It is a minor miracle to see the defendant back in our jurisdiction.”
That's easy. Because telling self-aggrandizing lies is what he does. Expect plenty more.
Another quote from the Daily Mirror, this one from a prosecutor in the case, is just as self-aggrandizing if not exactly a lie.
Prosecutor Kate Leonard said: “We worked closely with the US to ensure our extradition request was expedited.”Really? Lets look at the timeline of key events. The crash occurred in July, 2023. The American driver skipped a UK court appearance and became a fugitive in December 2023. He was taken into custody in the U.S. on an extradition warrant in July 2024, and a leisurely ten weeks after that, in October 2024, he was picked up by West Mercia Police and returned to the U.K. His next court appearance is scheduled for November 2024.