Germans accuse U.S. of Stasi tactics before Obama visit

Re:Germans accuse U.S. of Stasi tactics before Obama visit by digitalengineer on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @02:50AM (#5866875)

Sounds crazy but the US has plans to IN-f*cking-VADE Germany's neighbour, the Netherlands if they were ever to do a crazy thing, like arrest US soldiers for war crimes and bring them to the International Tribunal.

..."The Hague Invasion Act,[3][4] since such freeing of US citizens by force might only be possible through an invasion of The Hague, Netherlands, the seat of several international criminal courts and the seat of the Dutch government."

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members%27_Pro...

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Re:Germans accuse U.S. of Stasi tactics before Obama visit by arethuza on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @05:12AM (#5867210)

Countries have all kinds of crazy plans in place in case crazy things happen.

e.g. The UK had plans involving "shooting guards at American nuclear weapon stores in England if they proved uncooperative"

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/in-the-eve...

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Re:Germans accuse U.S. of Stasi tactics before Obama visit by digitalengineer on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @07:17AM (#5867506)

Correct. But the International Tribunal isn't exactly 'a crazy thing*. Would it be 'crazy' to uphold (Coalition) troops to the same standard as 'the bad guys'?

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Re:Germans accuse U.S. of Stasi tactics before Obama visit by arethuza on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @07:53AM (#5867592)

Personally, I think it is a great thing (I'd ship a certain former Prime Minister off to it) - but I'm not American.

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