actually, all he has to do to avoid extradition is apparently to prove that the case is, no matter how valid it may be (i don't think it is, but whatever) politically motivated.
there's a specific exception in the law/treaty/whatever that would be used to extradite him to the USA that SPECIFICALLY states that people cannot be extradited for politically motivated charges.
if he can prove the move to extradite him is politically motivated, there's a clause in NZ law that says he will NOT be extradited, regardless of the merits of the case, at which point the whole thing collapses.
now, NZ courts are Mostly pretty good, but it's been shown before that our government is not above dicking around with the law and leaning on people to get the outcome they want. all the more likely when they have outside forces leaning on them.
so he pretty much MUST make this case in public (and it has a LOT of publicity in NZ) so that public attention mitigates this. about the only thing that actually gets our government to grow a backbone when dealing with foreign powers is it's lack of backbone when it comes to pissed off voters.
basically, bizarre as it may seem, he's more likely to get a fair trial this way.
thing to remember is that NZ is small enough that the government Cannot just ignore it's citizens. it has to be Sneaky to get around us. now, it's pretty good at that, normally, but there's a number of things working against it at the moment:
1: the current government is horribly unpopular
2: there is a Strong nationalist sentiment floating around at the moment that is already pissed off with the government's deals with Chinese interests (and that's just the most recent and prominent example)
3: the general citizenry of NZ Do Not Like the US government. (perhaps more specifically, we do not like it meddling in our affairs, and are rather proud of being one of the few to actually stand up to it successfully on things here and there)
basically, by getting it out there in public he's making it VERY uncomfortable for the NZ government, which makes his entire situation much better. (seriously, the government here is getting utterly Shafted over this, at least in the circles i keep an eye on. the entire thing looks so corrupt and so obviously like pandering to foreign interests, which they're Already getting a lot of hate for... we've got a right-wing pro-US government at the moment. hilariously the party name is National. it's about the only party that's NOT got a significant nationalist vibe at this point (well, discounting it's essentially irrelevant coalition partners, and allowing that the labour party's nationalism is extremely hypocritical and adopted purely in a 'opposition should be opposite' manner.)
gist of it is, this is probably a good move.
('course, i could be wrong about any part of this, but it's what i've gathered from what i've seen and understood.)
but i still buy the ones i actually like that ARE available anyway.
that said, given that reading online scans on the agrigator sites is usually how i find out about a given manga in the first place (trying to figure out a million crosslinked blogs that each usually add very little data and badly designed publishers websites is NOT worth the time and effort to find new stuff that way)
i would go look on shelves in the shops, i suppose, save that the comic shop near here doesn't actually Stock much in the way of manga (actually, they dedicate more shelf space to Flames of War, War Hammer 40k, and board games than they do comics of ANY sort, and the word 'Comics' is right their in their name, the other stuff isn't.) though, if you ask, they will get it. (their thing is 'if it's published, comes out in three months or less (counting negative numbers there) and is available from a distributer other than the guy we used to get Phantom comics from (because that distributer is an ARSE who refused to sell to them due to them having to opperate out of a garage post Christchurch earthquake for a while. which made no sense.), we can get it for you.)
(actually, the way these things work and with print runs and such, if the US publishers actually kept up with the japanese publishers on new series they'd often be Out of Print before i even heard of them. that said, i know that's not the usual situation people find themselves in. the english OMG! keeps up with the takubon(sp?) releases in japan these days, and it's on about it's third print run in english. (they started over from the begining when they shifted to unflopped as they caught up, As Well as continuing to publish the new ones. the new ones have white spines, the republished old ones have coloured spines. i'm not sure what will happen when the re-releases get to the point where they started printing them that way, though. might stop (because the whole thing was available in one format) or might keep going (easier entry point for new fans of an apparantly insanely popular series))
Brackets! (not really, but i can actually spell that one.)
someone was talking about funding a carrier... how about a battleship? Much harder to kill (pure ability to take damage and keep functioning, not more damage resistant) and pretty much perfect of C&C work. much cheaper to maintain it's guns than the planes on a carrier, too.
(well, sadly there's the downside of carriers being able to kill 'em, but that's what Light carriers are for: dedicated interception duty. much cheaper than a standard carrier.)
that said, what you probably Actually want is a stealth cruiser.
you realise that the only problem in his sentence was the one thing you didn't correct, right?
it's plural, not ownership. Aussies, not Aussie's.
and the last thing you suggested says the opposite of the rest.
that said, i'll conceede that in the origional sentence it should be 'aren't', not 'are not'. (the fact that it's a single word, not two, changes the viable word orders.)
(though i've noticed a tendency amongst americans to write 'not just' as 'just not' ... or was it the other way around? regardless, when negating and adjective or adverb it's not uncommon for them to put the 'not' After it... resulting in the sentence reading as if they had negated the noun or verb instead and NOT the adjective/adverb.)
and the US practice of locking up forign nationals in locations not Technically under their law and torturing them to get the outcomes they want is of no concern what so ever, obviously.
nor the calls for his assasination by US officials.
while he could win the court case, his general well being is quite likely to be endangered.
(while plutocracy opposes aristocracy, it in no way favours the common man. just changes which set of elites run things. aristocracy and democracy Can be compatible. plutocracy inherently corrupts democracy. )
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generally it's only a commity rather than the full parliament that holds the hearing, but still.
the public can be heard, the public is allowed to attend to hear. it's still for the benefit of parliament.
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there's a specific exception in the law/treaty/whatever that would be used to extradite him to the USA that SPECIFICALLY states that people cannot be extradited for politically motivated charges.
see here: http://lawgeeknz.posterous.com/116226363
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court of public opinion.
if he can prove the move to extradite him is politically motivated, there's a clause in NZ law that says he will NOT be extradited, regardless of the merits of the case, at which point the whole thing collapses.
now, NZ courts are Mostly pretty good, but it's been shown before that our government is not above dicking around with the law and leaning on people to get the outcome they want. all the more likely when they have outside forces leaning on them.
so he pretty much MUST make this case in public (and it has a LOT of publicity in NZ) so that public attention mitigates this. about the only thing that actually gets our government to grow a backbone when dealing with foreign powers is it's lack of backbone when it comes to pissed off voters.
basically, bizarre as it may seem, he's more likely to get a fair trial this way.
thing to remember is that NZ is small enough that the government Cannot just ignore it's citizens. it has to be Sneaky to get around us. now, it's pretty good at that, normally, but there's a number of things working against it at the moment:
1: the current government is horribly unpopular
2: there is a Strong nationalist sentiment floating around at the moment that is already pissed off with the government's deals with Chinese interests (and that's just the most recent and prominent example)
3: the general citizenry of NZ Do Not Like the US government. (perhaps more specifically, we do not like it meddling in our affairs, and are rather proud of being one of the few to actually stand up to it successfully on things here and there)
basically, by getting it out there in public he's making it VERY uncomfortable for the NZ government, which makes his entire situation much better. (seriously, the government here is getting utterly Shafted over this, at least in the circles i keep an eye on. the entire thing looks so corrupt and so obviously like pandering to foreign interests, which they're Already getting a lot of hate for... we've got a right-wing pro-US government at the moment. hilariously the party name is National. it's about the only party that's NOT got a significant nationalist vibe at this point (well, discounting it's essentially irrelevant coalition partners, and allowing that the labour party's nationalism is extremely hypocritical and adopted purely in a 'opposition should be opposite' manner.)
gist of it is, this is probably a good move.
('course, i could be wrong about any part of this, but it's what i've gathered from what i've seen and understood.)
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but i still buy the ones i actually like that ARE available anyway.
that said, given that reading online scans on the agrigator sites is usually how i find out about a given manga in the first place (trying to figure out a million crosslinked blogs that each usually add very little data and badly designed publishers websites is NOT worth the time and effort to find new stuff that way)
i would go look on shelves in the shops, i suppose, save that the comic shop near here doesn't actually Stock much in the way of manga (actually, they dedicate more shelf space to Flames of War, War Hammer 40k, and board games than they do comics of ANY sort, and the word 'Comics' is right their in their name, the other stuff isn't.) though, if you ask, they will get it. (their thing is 'if it's published, comes out in three months or less (counting negative numbers there) and is available from a distributer other than the guy we used to get Phantom comics from (because that distributer is an ARSE who refused to sell to them due to them having to opperate out of a garage post Christchurch earthquake for a while. which made no sense.), we can get it for you.)
(actually, the way these things work and with print runs and such, if the US publishers actually kept up with the japanese publishers on new series they'd often be Out of Print before i even heard of them. that said, i know that's not the usual situation people find themselves in. the english OMG! keeps up with the takubon(sp?) releases in japan these days, and it's on about it's third print run in english. (they started over from the begining when they shifted to unflopped as they caught up, As Well as continuing to publish the new ones. the new ones have white spines, the republished old ones have coloured spines. i'm not sure what will happen when the re-releases get to the point where they started printing them that way, though. might stop (because the whole thing was available in one format) or might keep going (easier entry point for new fans of an apparantly insanely popular series))
Brackets! (not really, but i can actually spell that one.)
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so, if the judge agrees with you (and really, they should) then that's the end of it.
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i'm going with 'no'
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someone was talking about funding a carrier... how about a battleship? Much harder to kill (pure ability to take damage and keep functioning, not more damage resistant) and pretty much perfect of C&C work. much cheaper to maintain it's guns than the planes on a carrier, too.
(well, sadly there's the downside of carriers being able to kill 'em, but that's what Light carriers are for: dedicated interception duty. much cheaper than a standard carrier.)
that said, what you probably Actually want is a stealth cruiser.
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you realise that the only problem in his sentence was the one thing you didn't correct, right?
it's plural, not ownership. Aussies, not Aussie's.
and the last thing you suggested says the opposite of the rest.
that said, i'll conceede that in the origional sentence it should be 'aren't', not 'are not'. (the fact that it's a single word, not two, changes the viable word orders.)
(though i've noticed a tendency amongst americans to write 'not just' as 'just not' ... or was it the other way around? regardless, when negating and adjective or adverb it's not uncommon for them to put the 'not' After it... resulting in the sentence reading as if they had negated the noun or verb instead and NOT the adjective/adverb.)
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nor the calls for his assasination by US officials.
while he could win the court case, his general well being is quite likely to be endangered.
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(while plutocracy opposes aristocracy, it in no way favours the common man. just changes which set of elites run things. aristocracy and democracy Can be compatible. plutocracy inherently corrupts democracy. )
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A) armed
and
B) right there.
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just saying.
not that that in any way invalidates your point (and it may even improve your metaphore. the croc wouldn't be happy to start with :D)
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