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If the US Courts and the Executive seriously wish to exercise the laws of the US and extend their jurisdiction into other countries then this is cause for great concern.
Recently the US (Courts and Executive) have seemed to take the line that they are able to prosecute foriegn nationals for acts which occur off US soil. It does not seem to matter if the person hasn't broken any laws in their own country. This is obviously not right and precisely the kind of attitude that led others to target the USA. When the US is able to exercise political, legal and economic control over foriegn states then you have really got a situation that many people feared would develop if anyone actually "won" the cold war - the trouble is the propoganda of the western alliances always focused on the evil that would take place should the USSR gain world dominance , never was a scenario painted that modelled or predicted the outcome of UK/USA dominance.
The USA will remain a target of disaffected groups as long as it holds this misconception that it rules the world. Unfortunately countries like our own Australia seem to continually tow the US line - and the US is not always right.
[please dont misconstrue this post as supportive of illegal actions upon innocent people - it is just a cause/effect scenario which has developed post cold war]
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