Immunity

[Randy]

Should serving heads of state or members of Parliament/Congress enjoy immunity from some or all prosecution during their office?

 

[Evil Eye]

No. Imagine the horrors!

 

[Alien]

No I dont think so.

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

Many world leaders do have diplomatic immunity already. They arent going to break the law though because that will damage their reputation.

 

[xneseyx]

there shouldn't be immunity for anyone! I don't even think a queen has immunity from her own laws, so why should a Prime Minister or a President?

 

[Scout]

I don't think that's right at all... IMO, if a law is set by the mayor, the governor, or even the president, he/she must follow it just like everyone else. Why should we follow something if the person who made this law won't even follow it?

 

[Kasynlie]

So you guys are saying that presidents, the queen and other important people don't get to run red lights.

 

[Temerit]

No one should be above the law period. There is no reason this shouldn't hold true.

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

I don't think that's right at all... IMO, if a law is set by the mayor, the governor, or even the president, he/she must follow it just like everyone else. Why should we follow something if the person who made this law won't even follow it?

Well some areas have weird laws that nobody even knows until they break them. Like the wearing the color brown in February (i made that up, but it could be true somewhere

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Do you think a world leader (wearing a brown suit) visiting that area should be ticketed or jailed? XD

 

[xneseyx]

if it's something stupid like that and he doesn't know that he's breaking the law, he should be told nicely. warned, whatever. but if it happens again they can be prosecuted.

 

[Princess]

Diplomatic immunity only extends to someone that is visiting another country. Like if our President went to Israel and was caught speeding--then he would have diplomatic immunity from prosecution.



He is not exempt from all prosecution, however. He can be impeached and removed from office if guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors



The problem with diplomatic immunity is that a lot of times people like the 2nd undersecretary's assistant chauffeur from the Kingdom of Andora who is serving in the United Nations commits a rape/burgulary/or other heinous crime and is then allowed to walk away because of who they know..... You see this all the time on Law and Order and TV programs like that. I don't know exactly how many violent crimes are committed by diplomats and their staff, but whenever it happens, it's always a big problem.

 

[xneseyx]

if it's a murder or a rape or something that's illegal in just about every country on the planet, there should be no immunity whatsoever.

 

[Princess]

Well, yeah--I agree with that, but that isn't always the case. It's very very difficult to get immunity revoked from someone. The most that usually happens is they are asked to leave the country....