[Grovenet] Remember the goat herder?

[jo.david]

On Mar 21, 2009, at 7:39 AM, Walt Wentz wrote:

> Only one problem with that-- it might be hard to assemble a jury  
> of  "their peers" in Afghanistan, because their true peers are  
> mostly  vicious warlords and intolerant fanatics like Mulla Omar,  
> who are in  hiding and unlikely to comply with the ideals of human  
> law in any case.
> Truly, brothers under the skin...
> On Mar 20, 2009, at 10:13 PM, jo.david wrote:
>
>> ...
>> And then after a civil trial, we should allow for their  
>> extradition to Afghanistan to face criminal trial by a jury of  
>> "their peers" for charges of kidnap in the region/city where the  
>> kidnappings took place.
>>
>> David

I would expect that a jury of tribal leaders would know how to apply  
the appropriate legal precedents to someone who kidnapped members of  
their community.  Perhaps they would wind up serving as indentured  
servants to the wronged parties for a year or two.  Let's see, a  
fifty or sixty innocent shepherds in the whole group, at two years  
service each ( against the five or six years lost) would be a life  
sentence in Afghanistan for each of them.
Not bad, considering that for some time, kidnapping was a capital  
offense in this country.

David