NYC-Female Indian Diplomat strip searched, jailed.

[jmdrake]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-25411876



Why would she need to be strip searched over allegations that her maid was underpaid?

Oh,, never mind.

Are you suggesting she was strip searched for being hot?

 

[pcosmar]

Are you suggesting she was strip searched for being hot?

Yes,, I suggested that as possible.

The other option would be because of some petty bureaucrat's personal desire to humiliate her.

Her alleged crime is not justification for an arrest,, let alone a cavity search. ( hiding the maid's paycheck?)

And why the State Department was not on this immediately,, is puzzling.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

The other option would be because of some petty bureaucrat's personal desire to humiliate her.
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And why the State Department was not on this immediately,, is puzzling.

Petty, or even higher than that. Look at the situation through the eyes of the Obama leftists. This diplomat requested that the US Government help hunt down her runaway "slave". Would someone in the Obama Administration intentionality humiliate her? Good question.

As for the strip search, it's SOP. But there are always the prurient interests of the jailers at play too.

 

[S.Shorland]

Why do they all always get those zits in the same spot on the middle of the forehead?

It's a specially depilated and colour-marked area where Americans are encouraged to keep their gum.

 

[JohnM]

I've gotta wonder what the Indian people think about this woman being treated in this manner...

"The-Newz" reports what the Indian government has to say, but as is often the case, the people and the government are at odds.

Judging by the street protests, I would imagine that a high proportion of the Indian people want their government to take a somewhat harder line with the US authorities.

 

[tod evans]

Judging by the street protests, I would imagine that a high proportion of the Indian people want their government to take a somewhat harder line with the US authorities.

Cool! I'm with 'em then..


I just kept thinking how would I feel if John McCain got his ass probed over in Sandville....I wouldn't protest even a little bit..

 

[Contumacious]

Cool! I'm with 'em then..


I just kept thinking how would I feel if John McCain got his ass probed over in Sandville....I wouldn't protest even a little bit..

Ditto.

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[otherone]

I feel so so sad. So lost to see such a surge of Americans shouting out to defend our humiliating practices. It's so sad.

naaah.
It's typical. The reason we have an evil, immoral empire is that it is populated by evil, immoral peons. The State isn't a faceless monster...it is composed of all our petty, ignorant, self-righteous and self-absorbed neighbors.

 

[Occam's Banana]

I just kept thinking how would I feel if John McCain got his ass probed over in Sandville....I wouldn't protest even a little bit..

Protest? Hell, if that happened, I'd try to start a nation-wide letter-writing campaign to express our profound gratitude to their ambassador ...

 

[Mani]

This is what the MSM is telling us isn't it?

Or is this actually coming from Indians and not their government?

You'll have to forgive my skepticism concerning anything the MSM puts out..

According to the Indian culture, what happened to her is pretty much the equivalent of a rape. It's about the worst thing that could ever happen to her. It's pretty much unthinkable.



And I think if a Female US Diplomat (not some corrupt pyscho PIeace of shit politician) was taken to prison and raped while in prison in another country, I'd be disturbed by it.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Update to this story...

...But if there is a sinner here, it is not the diplomat or the housekeeper. It is the U.S. Prosecutor for Manhattan, Preet Bharara, an Obama appointee, whose crusade will hurt those in whose name he launched it: foreign domestic help.
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But Bharara, himself born in India, was unbowed. “One wonders,” he asked, “why there is so much outrage about the alleged treatment of the Indian national accused of perpetrating these acts, but precious little outrage about the alleged treatment of the Indian victim?”

It’s a good question. But the answer is not that the deeply class-conscious Indian society that reflexively treats the rich and powerful as more equal than the poor and powerless. That insinuation is true but irrelevant. It is that Indians see Bharara’s pompous insistence on enforcing a preposterous rule of law without regard to the human context as moral fanaticism.
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More:
http://reason.com/archives/2014/01/21/new-york-prosecutors-crusade-again-india

 

[ObiRandKenobi]

*sigh* At least I thought the liberty movement had some informed, educated and open-minded people. Thanks for reminding me how bigots and racists exist even amongst us.

Like they don't make fun of you? Everybody needs to relax.

 

[asurfaholic]

Like they don't make fun of you? Everybody needs to relax.

Yea this thread being bumped brings back the classless remark i made earlier on. Yea it was dumb but I got more + reps for that than most other things I've posted, so I guess there's others who enjoyed a dumb joke as much as I do.

So much of what we discuss here is depressing or prone to make you rage. It helps to cut loose.

Other times people just forget that this is a special place in the world... It's the Internet, where some people say stupid shit just to get a reaction.

 

[Jamesiv1]

There's gold in them thar hills.

At a time when nothing seems to be able to stem the Indian rupee’s decline, a novel idea to boost the currency is doing the rounds: use the tons of gold stashed away in people’s homes and in temples.

India currently holds around 20,000 tons of gold, according to the World Gold Council. At current prices, that would be worth $950 billion.

A small piece of this gold – around 558 tons or 2.79% – is held by the Reserve Bank of India, making it the 11th largest official owner of gold in the world, according to data from the World Gold Council and International Monetary Fund.

The rest is held by households and individuals, in their homes or bank vaults, and by Indian temples, which have historically received gold bars, coins and even jewelry as donations from patrons.

Not really a new idea:

Executive Order 6102
The Gold Reserve Act of 1934

"The silver is mine, and the gold is mine..." Haggai 2:8

 

[osan]

The reason we have an evil, immoral empire is that it is populated by evil, immoral peons. The State isn't a faceless monster...it is composed of all our petty, ignorant, self-righteous and self-absorbed neighbors.

I just tried giving this post rep a second time.

This has got to be one of the best quotes I've ever read here. There is no whit of untruth in it and it describes the American meaner to a 't'.

 

[Anti Federalist]

I just tried giving this post rep a second time.

This has got to be one of the best quotes I've ever read here. There is no whit of untruth in it and it describes the American meaner to a 't'.

Fed, entertained and exercising petty power over their fellow man.

 

[Cissy]

naaah.
It's typical. The reason we have an evil, immoral empire is that it is populated by evil, immoral peons. The State isn't a faceless monster...it is composed of all our petty, ignorant, self-righteous and self-absorbed neighbors.

Needs more rep. Please to take mine. Kthnxbai.

 

[Dark_Horse_Rider]

This seem like an almost deliberate attempt to piss them off.

Though it seems that our State Department does not understand the meaning of diplomacy.

B.R.I.C.S.

Similar thing happened when Pakistan got all cozy with China few years back with the fighter jet deal.

Yeah, funny story that . . . al -CIAda suddenly attacked the base housing the planes the U.S. had " gifted " ( of course with strings attached ) to burn and destroy those U.S. jets given to Pakistan.

Anyone know if China ever delivered on that order ?

BRICS