On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 22:04 -0400, James Knott wrote:
Mike McMullin wrote:
On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 14:01 -0400, James Knott wrote:
James D. Parra wrote:
U.S. laws do *NOT* apply outside of the U.S.. Not according to U.S. law makers. Jerome
Well the US gov' does impose it laws outside the US on the actions of its citizens. Income Tax laws apply to US citizens if they work overseas. Regardless how long a citizen has lived outside the US, the IRS states the you must pay taxes even if your have already paid income taxes in the country you are residing in. Also, certain crimes if committed outside the US are punishable by US laws. There was one case, a few years ago, when an executive of a Canadian company was charged with dealing with Cuba, even though his company was in Canada and no business was conducted in the U.S.
Problem with this IIRC is that the "Canadian" company was owned by an American Company. Hence it wasn't as nicely distant, as wholly Canadian.
No it was not owned by an American company. There was another case, not too long ago, about a Russian programmer violating that DCMA, while still in Russia. He was arrested, when he came to the U.S. The U.S. government should be very careful about such things, as they're inviting other countries to impose their laws on Americans, when outside their jurisdictions.
Its not just America. An American was arrested in Germainy for things said on his website hosted in America. He was what we call white trash, a member of the KKK who spoke well of Hitler. Foolish as this is such speach is protected by our first amendment. There was some question as to how the Germain government caused him to enter their country so they could arrest him. It seems governments are getting more arrogant all the time. I guess America is more so because of how many nations are on the dole. We use that checkbook diplomacy to perverse ends. -- ___ _ _ _ ____ _ _ _ | | | | [__ | | | |___ |_|_| ___] | /