Poor Mr Tappin

Yes this is him Mr Christopher Tappin (65) a retired businessman who has been accused of selling batteries to the Iranians for their Hawk missile system....

He faces the possibility of 35 years in a US jail for this offence...

Now correct me if I'm wrong but surely if somebody is extradited for an offence doesn't the country wanting the extradition have to provide proof that a crime has been committed ? Apparently not ... not since Tony Blair and his American bum lickers at the time decided to  ride roughshod over fundamental British legal principles and create the UK extradition treaty with America.... So now if Homeland security thinks a British national has misbehaved and they want him or her extradited they just have to ask and the UK will hand them over without requiring any proof whatsoever that they have done something wrong....

Americans however cannot be extradited to the UK we have to give proof to the Americans that we have a valid reason to extradite an American national.... does that seem just a little bit one sided ? or is it just me who thinks that ?

What makes this whole matter worse is that Mr Tappin was entrapped by a customs sting operation which had it not been setup in the first place then no crime (in their eyes) would have been committed..... it's almost like sitting at the traffic lights and some spotty kid in a Renault Clio starts revving his engine next to your nice big BMW, do you bite or just let the idiot thrash his engine ? some people bite like Mr Tappin, probably on the promise of  lots of money/profit. He claims he thought they were being shipped for car production in the Netherlands ..... I tend to believe him.... 

However the McCarthy-like paranoia of the USA seems to have at the moment when either you're a Muslim/Arab or might having sported a beard at some time or flown over Muslim countries maybe once.... therefore a bona fide threat to national security and you need to be locked up or executed..... In fact I have no doubt that this blog entry will be filed away in some vast data repository because it rips the piss out of the Americans and my name will be added to the long list of potential Energizer bunny buyers/sellers.

How utterly ridiculous, if Terrorists wanted one thing they wanted to disrupt normal life and they have succeeded because they have got what used to be the biggest superpower walking on a tightrope grasping at straws and entrapping a 65 year old Golf Club President for a deal that never existed and was never going to be honoured by the fronted company setup by the FBI in Texas.... the whole thing stinks to hell and back....

Of course the US government has a pristine record for not selling arms to undesirables (NOT)..... just look back in history..... an old proverb springs to mind 


"Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye,' when you yourself fail to see the plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye." 


Much as I hate to use scripture in my blog posts being a fully paid up member of the rabid atheist club..... However this one in particular hits the nail on the head......

I hope Mr Tappin runs rings around the US legal system and here's to wishing him back in the UK as soon as possible so that he can enjoy his family and retirement.....

Bloody idiotic yanks 

(granted some are ok.... probably the ones who actually read this......) 

Anyway that's me barred from entering the USA ever ....