Are you trolling?

I'm putting the obscene amount of money illegally withheld by the US diplomatic corps into perspective, given our publicly funded healthcare system which is facing extreme cutbacks.

Then why would you think 11 million dollars wouldn't help cancer 240 cancer patients when the cost of treatment is an estimated £30,000 per patient? (paragraph 11)

You do realise that 4.5 billion pounds is not per patient, don't you? [I just want to check]

I'm amazed you think 11 million dollars worth of law breaking is no big deal!

Yet they won't be indiscriminately subjected to strip searches because to the best of my knowledge no many other countries tend to degrade and humiliate detainees en masse like the USA does :o)

I'm saying the US has violated the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations be refusing to treat a consular officer with dignity, by virtue of them forcing her to remove her clothes and then groping her. And it makes total sense because a consular official might have snuck in a brick of coke in her arsehole or…

P.S. Here's a story from The Guardian:

I've asked this on another thread and I'll ask it here: Why are you mounting such a lusty defense of a slaveholder?

You've conceded defeat. Consular officers must be treated with dignity. You have admitted strip-searching breaches human dignity.

What part of 'shall treat consular officers with due respect and...dignity' versus the fact that she was forced to remove her clothing and groped are you having difficulty with?

They pay what they should in India.

Fair enough.

She allegedly paid her maid grossly below US minimum wage standards, and we're still talking about the treatment she received instead of the treatment she may have gave her employees.

The Vienna Convention on Consular Relations say host states must treat consular officers with dignity. Having a US Marshall force you to take your clothes off, having him/her grope your tits and vag (and potentially jam their fingers in your snatch, if her account is correct) is inconsistent with that provision, no…

Oh, I agree. But I know if a UK diplomat gets a parking ticket, they will pay it because the Consul General/Ambassador will not allow them to abuse diplomatic immunity, in the same way US diplomats are used to constantly abusing it.

The US diplomatic corps normally view tickets and such as local taxes that they are not subject to.

It's been cited elsewhere in the thread, dear. Pay attention.

Laws are laws. You favour selective invocation of the argument 'local laws must be obeyed'. I do not believe in selectively invoking such an argument.

The US owes the equivalent of cancer treatment for 240 patients in our National Health Service. Either laws are to be complied with (and the moral high ground can be claimed) or they're not.