| a. This proposed Treaty will permit a foreign government, Britain, to virtually kidnap American citizens for up to 60 days, even if no federal law has been violated.
b. Americans could be arrested and charged on the word of a sole, unnamed witness.
c. Americans would be tried in a British court and imprisoned in a British jail, and the British government would seize all of the accused’s property and assets.
d. “Crimes” could be acts such as signing a human rights petition over ten years ago. There is no statute of limitations in this proposed Treaty and it would be applied retroactively.
e. The requirement for "prima fascea" evidence is made irrelevant. Merely a government’s allegation could result in criminal charges.
f. The cherished "political offense exemption" clause, a pillar of US extradition law since the days of our founding fathers, would be rendered obsolete under this Treaty.
g. The rule of law in the United States, the entitlement to due process for all American citizens, and the rights and freedoms guaranteed us by the US Constitution would be forever altered, perhaps irreparably, by the sweeping terms written into this Treaty.
h. This Treaty is vastly un-American and must be blocked. Please urge the Senator to oppose the US/UK Extradition Treaty in Hearings
next week! |