In other words, if you find a legal system of a country objectionable, you should not visit it? What if you aren't guilty, what if you didn't commit the crime but were convicted anyway? I don't know about you, but I sure as hell would like my country to act and help me.
Hell, let's just ignore everything that happens abroad, let's just let them do what they want and look the other way. Let's stop trading with them, let's just forget they exist.
Crimea situation solved, for one.
Well, that is a position. Not my position by a position.
Consider two minor media celebrities. One from Australia and one from US. Shapelle Corby and Michal Fay.
They chose to do the wrong thing in the wrong country to do it and suddenly it is so sad and such a travesty. Shapelle carries in a bogeyboard cover crammed with marihuana in Indonesia. Michael Fay decided to graffiti the walls of Singapore.
They did the wrong thing and knew they were doing the wrong thing. Whatever vicarious thrill they got was short lived because they were caught. Everyone up in arms because the law in both instances was "harsh".
Michael ended up despite huge protests and such, in getting a heap of whippings with the rottan.
Shapelle ended up doing some serious jail time. She was let out on parole recently with a lot of very strict prohibitions, especially in respect to talking with the media and selling her story...guess what she did? Now she is facing more jail time and she cannot bear it and is so hard done by....
Enough already. Why is the respective country's media so interested and why are people making such a fuss over losers like this. It is not even really up for question whether they were guilty or not, but rather how unfair it is that they are not either punished as per the country's laws that they came from or sent back to their own country.
No, no, no. I will not have. Do the crime and do the time. Regardless of anything else, you do X in Y country, then THAT country gets to punish you, by the laws in their country relating to crime X.
I have no pity. I also believe that celebrities ought not be afforded more right, nor the rich. Do the crime and do the time. It is fair and equitable.
That leads on to the next question, what if they did not? Then they ought not do the time. How do you determine that? By the court system there, same as they would in their home country.