There is the Rule of Law, which is based on the law and common precedents. The there is the Bush Administrations view of the Rule of Law. Under the common Rule of Law which all civilized nations agree, a person may not be picked up from the streets of this country by operatives from another country and then spirited to that other country by these operatives to face prosecution in that other country.

This is no longer the operational Rule of Law.

See below the fold for all the details of the new Bush Rule of Law.

As reported in Sunday Times of London, the Bush Administration argued in a British court that the United States had the right to send agents and operatives into a foreign country and take visiting British citizens off the streets and shanghai them to the United States to face prosecution. This was not some theory that was being examined, but the real life case of Gavin Tollman whom the United States attempted to abduct while he was in Canada.

Alun Jones QC, representing the US government, replied that it was acceptable under American law to kidnap people if they were wanted for offences in America. "The United States does have a view about procuring people to its own shores which is not shared," he said.

Now, let's see if the "other foot" rule would apply. President Chavez of Venezuela has made no secret of the fact that he would like to have ant-Castro terrorist Orlando Bosch returned to his country for the crime of blowing up a commercial jet with a large number of passengers aboard (October 6, 1976 bombing of a Cuban civilian airliner in which all 73 people on board were killed, including many young members of a Cuban fencing team and 5 North Koreans).

Orlando Bosch is currently living in the Miami area. Orlando Bosch was a former asset of the CIA and was used by the CIA in disruption of the Cuban government from 1962-63 time frame.

Now based on the now public policy of the New Bush Rule of Law, it would be acceptable for the Venezuelan government to put together a strike team. Enter the United States and forcibly kidnap Orlando Bosch from his home in Florida and take hin to Venezuela to stand trial for his terrorist activities.

It should be noted that in the past, the way this was done was for the government of the country that wanted the person to start a legal proceeding called an extradition in order to get the other country to take the person of interest into custody and turn them over to the country that wanted that person. But that was the days of the Rule of Law, and today we have the wild west Rule of Bush in which the Rule of Law is all but gone.

Please take your time to call on your Congressmen and Seantors to tell them that you still believe in the Rule of Law and that you want this administration to be held accountable for it's failure to follow it.