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I don't understand why he can't just go to the British Embassy and have them take him out of the country. Or is that not how it works?
From camel to Cadillac in a single generation....there is still a long ways to go in terms of human rights in that part of the world.
You realize they were a sea-faring, international trading people for the last 800 years right? Forget the camel, and think dhow . For every Westerner that gets this shitty treatment there are ten that go the Gulf, run up debt, abuse people's hospitality, and flee like cowards.
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You realize they were a sea-faring, international trading people for the last 800 years right? Forget the camel, and think dhow . For every Westerner that gets this shitty treatment there are ten that go the Gulf, run up debt, abuse people's hospitality, and flee like cowards.
If that's the case then it shouldn't be as easy to run up the debt, treating people like this is completely unjustified and wrong. Why do they flee? Is it because of debtor prisons like in dubai? Is it because the legal system is corrupt? Is it because the banks lend out money to irresponsible people with no collateral?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/8471187.stm
Arabs have seens waves and waves of such Western "businessmen", selling them sham products that kill or injure people, or wipe them out financially.
I wouldn't mind if the Iraqi government held Jim McCormick "hostage", until he was able to defend himself successfully in a court of law.
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If that's the case then it shouldn't be as easy to run up the debt, treating people like this is completely unjustified and wrong. Why do they flee? Is it because of debtor prisons like in dubai? Is it because the legal system is corrupt? Is it because the banks lend out money to irresponsible people with no collateral?
Here is a guy who recently did business with the government of Iraq, selling them $85M worth of fake bomb detection equipment: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/8471187.stm Arabs have seens waves and waves of such Western "businessmen", selling them sham products that kill or injure people, or wipe them out financially. I wouldn't mind if the Iraqi government held Jim McCormick "hostage", until he was a…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
If that's the case then it shouldn't be as easy to run up the debt, treating people like this is completely unjustified and wrong. Why do they flee? Is it because of debtor prisons like in dubai? Is it because the legal system is corrupt? Is it because the banks lend out money to irresponsible people with no collateral?
Here is a guy who recently did business with the government of Iraq, selling them $85M worth of fake bomb detection equipment: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/8471187.stm Arabs have seens waves and waves of such Western "businessmen", selling them sham products that kill or injure people, or wipe them out financially. I wouldn't mind if the Iraqi government held Jim McCormick "hostage", until he was a…
The use of force is not something that is thrown around lightly, and what if that guy thought what he was selling worked? I mean are we going to lock up all the homeopath people?