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December 17, 2013

Still Amateur Hour In US Foreign Policy

Get ready for more of this as our nation's laws are corrupted by liberals. Under the rule of progressives, social crimes are worse than real crimes.

The federal government arrested an Indian diplomat last week for failing to pay her house nanny the required minimum wage. She was only released after paying a quarter million dollar bail.

Good Lord you'd think she robbed a bank, raped a nun and clubbed a baby seal to death.

Of course SecState Kerry is concerned that the Indian government has begun to retaliate for no reason.
India’s government – incensed over the arrest of a female diplomat in Manhattan last week – has retaliated by removing the security barriers in front of the US embassy in New Delhi, the country’s main news agency reported.

Tow trucks and a backhoe were used to haul off the long concrete barriers — designed to prevent cars from speeding up to the embassy’s gates – that had been in front of the compound. The Press Trust of India reported that the government was behind the move.

[...]India’s government – incensed over the arrest of a female diplomat in Manhattan last week – has retaliated by removing the security barriers in front of the US embassy in New Delhi, the country’s main news agency reported.

The heavy-handed retaliation was sparked by the arrest of Devyani Khobragade, India’s deputy consul general for political, economic, commercial and women’s affairs in Manhattan, for allegedly mistreating her female nanny.

The feds charged that Khobragade lied on a visa application to get the Indian national into the United States and then paid her a paltry $3.31 an hour.

Khobragade was handcuffed and reportedly strip-searched after her bust, treatment considered particularly demeaning for a woman in her country.India’s officials fumed that she was even held in a cell with drug addicts.
Other scheduled meetings with Indian officials have been cancelled as American diplomats are told to hit the road.

Seriously, we had no beef with India until this nonsense.

Now I'll never get that answer to my Windows 7 problems from customer support.

My apologies, the links to this story are here and here.

7 comments:

Gorges Smythe said...

I thought diplomats were immune for arrest, except for espionage!

Woodsterman (Odie) said...

For future help with your Windows 7 call 1-800-jan-efonda.

Kid said...

I also hear the NSA will fix any problem you have remotely for free , just give them permanent access and install web cams throughout the home.

But yea, taking foreign relations back a THOUSAND years. Seriously.

Do libtards care? Do they know?
I'd say No and No. This will all be blamed on the next repub in office and they'll buy it hook line, and hetero to homosexual transformation.

sig94 said...

Gorges - the article states the reason for the arrest which,if adopted by other governments, could lead to the arrest of our diplomats for homosexual activity, which is illegal in many countries.

American officials stated,"immunity would apply only to a crime committed in connection with her official duties." They'd better be careful about that one.

sig94 said...

Odie - thanks, but I thought I really had a good relationship with Mr. Singh. Now that's all gone...

sig94 said...

Kid - I'd like to have been privy to the vetting process that resulted in this arrest going through. I imagine the political pluses of enforcing this law versus creating an international crisis were rather one sides.

Kid said...

There is more to this story.