Judge throws out Blackwater murder charges

[Strix]

I don't work for YTG (Yukon Territorial Government).

I work for the Federal Government.

It might be different in Canada.

Here, the DoJ won't touch a case unless Helen Kellar could win it. It gets thrown back at the State who wins most of them but the criminals get lesser sentences.

[katmai]

And you've never seen an incompetent government until you've dealt with the Yukon Territorial Government.  It has 98% of the powers of a province, and a billion dollar plus federal grant, and absolutely no one remotely qualified to do anything.

So where do i apply!

[Barrister]

And you've never seen an incompetent government until you've dealt with the Yukon Territorial Government.  It has 98% of the powers of a province, and a billion dollar plus federal grant, and absolutely no one remotely qualified to do anything.

So where do i apply!

http://employment.gov.yk.ca/

You'd fit right in. 

[katmai]

I don't work for YTG (Yukon Territorial Government).

I work for the Federal Government.

It might be different in Canada.

Here, the DoJ won't touch a case unless Helen Kellar could win it. It gets thrown back at the State who wins most of them but the criminals get lesser sentences.

We've been dealing with DoJ fuckups in the ongoing cases of political corruption up here (Ted Stevens, and the 3-5 state officials caught up with the former Veco Oil company)

[Razgovory]

Not all government is like the navy.

Not all government is unlike the US Navy, either.  If you drove, then you would have to deal with Department of Motor Vehicle types and police, and you would know what I meant.

It's funny I've never had any problems with Department of Motor Vehicles or the police.  Even when I did drive. 

I'm trying to decide if you are trolling on this.  It's so unlike you to say something this stupid.

[katmai]

And you've never seen an incompetent government until you've dealt with the Yukon Territorial Government.  It has 98% of the powers of a province, and a billion dollar plus federal grant, and absolutely no one remotely qualified to do anything.

So where do i apply!

http://employment.gov.yk.ca/

You'd fit right in. 

[Barrister]

It might be different in Canada.

Here, the DoJ won't touch a case unless Helen Kellar could win it. It gets thrown back at the State who wins most of them but the criminals get lesser sentences.

Definitely different that us.  We're unafraid to lose a case.

[grumbler]

It's funny I've never had any problems with Department of Motor Vehicles or the police.  Even when I did drive. 

AND THEN YOU WOKE UP, AND YOUR PILLOW WAS GONE! 

I'm trying to decide if you are trolling on this.  It's so unlike you to say something this stupid.

Don't worry about it.  You could not understand it even if I explained it to you. 

[Fate]

Sounds like grumbles had a few too many. 

[Razgovory]

Occasionally Grumbler says some bizarre things.  This is one of them.  I think it's either trolling or senility.  When we get to a point like this it's best to just smile and nod.

[Strix]

We've been dealing with DoJ fuckups in the ongoing cases of political corruption up here (Ted Stevens, and the 3-5 state officials caught up with the former Veco Oil company)

Yes, I imagine the DoJ is pissing in their pants. It kills them to be forced to actually work a case that the outcome isn't already 99.9% certain.

[viper37]

Definitely different that us.  We're unafraid to lose a case.

Given that there is no criminal code for provinces, it's a given that you won't send the case to the provinces

[The Minsky Moment]

Apparently, these guys can't be tried in Iraq because of an immunity agreement in place at the time between the Iraqi government and the Coalition Provisional Authority.

However, that raises a legal question I don't have the answer to: does the benefit of that immunity agreement attach to the individuals as such, or can it be waived by the US government?