SEND THE CIA KIDNAPPER BACK TO ITALY TO FACE JUSTICE

http://fff.org/2013/07/19/send-the-cia-kidnapper-back-to-italy-to-face-justice/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=send-the-cia-kidnapper-back-to-italy-to-face-justice

An opportunity for the anti-Snowden crowd to show their consistency to principle has arisen. A convicted American kidnapper has been apprehended in Panama as a result of an international arrest warrant. The man was convicted in Italy in 2009 and sentenced to serve 9 years in jail. However, he went on the lam and has never returned to Italy to face justice. While Italy and Panama do not have an extradition treaty, Panama could nonetheless voluntarily send this convict back to Italy to serve his time, much as the anti-Snowden crowd is requesting Russia to send Edward Snowden back to the United States.

Will the anti-Snowden crowd demand that Panama extradite this convicted kidnapper to Italy, as they have been doing with Russia and Edward Snowden?

Don’t count it. Statists have never been known for their consistency to principle. Their “principles” are usually just a bunch of ad-hoc choices that revolve around the dictum, “My U.S. national-security state, never wrong.”

You see, the convicted kidnapper, Robert Seldon Lady, is the former CIA station chief in Milan. He led the team that kidnapped a Muslim cleric off the streets of Milan and renditioned him for torture to Egypt. Yes, that Egypt—the one that is ruled by a brutal military dictatorship that was then headed by military strongman Hosni Mubarak.