> Whoa there, Bloomberg; just because the USA bans the sale of something to your country doesn't make it banned in your country.

Many Americans, including their government, seem to think that US laws apply globally.

They have extradited Ukrainian men from Poland because that Ukrainian was running a torrent website (illegal in the US, not illegal in Ukraine nor Poland).

They tried getting an Australian extradited from Sweden and the UK for supposedly hosting a website that contained information the US government considered illegally obtained.

More egregiously, they have kidnapped tens to hundreds of people from various countries, sometimes on reasons as flimsy as watch model or name, to torture (sometimes to death), because a lawyer working for the president decided that's actually legal because they're waves hands "enemy combattants".

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ebbi 3 days ago | parent [-]

The same government that runs Guantanamo prison, known for it's illegal torture practices and imprisoning people with no charges?

Can't be!

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epolanski 3 days ago | parent [-]

Fun fact, when US prisoner of wars were water boarded by the Japanese, these got death sentences.

When a US soldier was photographed in Vietnam waterboarding a vietnamese PoW he got 22 years of prison.

Then came 2002 and rule of law stopped applying.

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sofixa 3 days ago | parent [-]

> When a US soldier was photographed in Vietnam waterboarding a vietnamese PoW he got 22 years of prison.

Really? Did he serve more than a month? Because if the people who committed My Lai for off with slaps on the wrist, I can't imagine something as trivial as waterboarding would get any serious consequences.

	▲	epolanski 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		I am referring to this is the picture [1] which was printed on the post in 1968. I am not able to find more information about the court martialed soldier, but the fact that he was sentenced to 22 years of prison is a quote from a lecture of professor Sarah Paine from the US Navy War Academy. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Waterboarding_a_captured_...