Duane 'Dog' Chapman arrested...

[Dixon Cannon]

The Bounty Hunter, Duane 'Dog' Chapman has been arrested by federal marshals on Friday in connection with his apprehension of multiple rapist hiding in Mexico.

http://www.hawaiireporter.com/story.aspx?34d8f743-74d4-47fe-a4ff-7e7d23f780c7

I'm interested in opinions on this situation in light of our current relationship with Mexico, it's harboring of American fugitives, it's political and judicial corruption and it's continuing refusal to address illegal emmigration to the United States.

Should we allow our Department of Justice to extradite an American citizen who has paid his dues for his previous transgressions and now devotes his life to the apprehension or fugitives and criminals? Should we allow the man who is responsible for bringing a violent and unrepentant rapist to justice here be sent back to Mexico for some perceived violation when Mexico itself refused to extradite the criminal back to us?

I think 'Dog' is rather a hero, and based on his television persona, rather a gentleman. I don't believe we need to send him to Mexico to face their version of criminal justice, he having done their job for them so well previously!

That's my opinion; what's yours?

-dixon cannon

 

[Feraud]

Free "Dog" Chapman!!
It is a travesty that this man is being persecuted for apprehending a rapist.
Technically he broke a law or two by doing it in Mexico but d--- them for harboring the heir to the Max Factor fortune serial rapist (and God knows how many others ) to begin with.

 

[Terry Lennox]

Dog is no hero...

Dog is a BOUNTY HUNTER. They get paid to find people, flat.

Is Timmy the mail room guy a hero because he gets your letters to the post office for the business on time? No, he's paid to do it.
Dog is a Paid Bounty Hunter. He doesn't care if it's a rapist or a drug dealer or a guy who didn't pay his taxes. It's a guy that's worth X amount of dollars. Plain and simple.

 

[Feraud]

He may not be a hero but should not be arrested for doing his job. Even if he technically did it out of his jurisdiction.
Mexico's response sounds more like "sour grapes" than anything else.
I think at the very least we can agree Dog is doing more good than harm and should not be locked up. Or do we prefer Mr. Max Factor on the loose?

 

[Terry Lennox]

I've never been one for the Ends Justify the Means.

 

[Feraud]

The Dog's gotta do his job.

 

[pablocham]

The rule of law...

When mexican nationals come to america and violate our laws, I want them to be arrested, deported or otherwise dealt with. If they return to mexico I would like mexico to send them here to face justice when the law so requires. Doesn't this cut both ways? When dog breaks the laws of mexico he should have to pay the piper just like anybody else would.

 

[raiderrescuer]

dog law...

Not only did Dog knowingly brake the law he took his camera crew there to film it...gives the Mexican authority all the evidence they needed! (and the US Feds was just a few minutes behind Dog.)

Then the Dog shows up in Oregon about a Teacher who "abducted" a teen.
Oregon has laws against Bounty Hunters and while on the news he was reminded of the fact and all he could do is scoff and say he'd get his man.

The Teacher and Teen were found (not by Dog) and the Teen had willingly ran away to be with her "love".

 

[Katt in Hat]

One Man's Technicality is Another's Miscarriage of Justice.

The same person may say of one case, "That mutt got off on a technicality"; and in another " His good deed got him arrested and tried on a legal technicality."

A song title; It Depends On How You Look At Things and an old adage, Whose ox is being gored?

There are many who would treat The Bill of Rights as if it were a takeout menu.

i.e. The Second Amendment is inviolable but the First can be jiggered with depending on the circumstances.

 

[Baron Kurtz]

Broke a law in Mexico? Go to Mexico and answer for your crime. If you can't do the time (or face the consequences, though that doesn't rhyme), don't do the crime ... as some of our more "lock 'em up" members preach.

bk

 

[Tomasso]

I say, off to the pound with him!

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[Dixon Cannon]

Let me add..

I don't think the government of Mexico would be quite as willing to 'return the favor', as it were. That's why Andrew Luster went there in the first place and why he was not promptly returned here to face his charges.

If Duane Chapman and his son return to Mexico for any reason, I believe the Mexican authorities have every right to follow their law as it applies in this case. What I don't believe is that the United States government has any obligation whatsoever to turn over an American citizen for the "crime" of apprehending a convicted, violent, fugitive felon evading his incarceration by fleeing to Mexico.

My view is, if Mexico wants him, they should send their own "Dog" after him, and our U.S. Marshals should work on higher priority projects and not collude with that corrupt system by harassing a guy who get's the job done! :eusa_clap

What say you?!!

-dixon cannon

 

[Miss Marnie]

My view is, if Mexico wants him, they should send their own "Dog" after him, and our U.S. Marshals should work on higher priority projects and not collude with that corrupt system by harassing a guy who get's the job done! :eusa_clap

What say you?!!

-dixon cannon

I agree!:eusa_clap

 

[MK]

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There are many who would treat The Bill of Rights as if it were a takeout menu.

i.e. The Second Amendment is inviolable but the First can be jiggered with depending on the circumstances.

I have no dog in this race.....but I very much agree with your first statement. As for the second....I find that it is the other way around....especially on a substantive level.

People aren't asked to get a license, a background check and a waiting period to exercise their First Amendment rights....but that is another subject.

 

[The Captain]

A Mexican national who gunned down a Colorado police officer was sent back
to answer for his alledged crime ONLY on the condition that he not face the death penalty. Mexican law is a joke, the cops are all corrupt and those that aren't are shot down in the street; Drug lords are in control. If anyone wants justice down there - fuggedaboudit! As for me, I say
UNLEASH the DOG! and while we're at it, close the border! :rage:

 

[Feraud]

Let us have a little perspective on this situation. The bottom line is an alleged rapist is being brought to stand a fair trial. Dog Chapman did not rape or murder to apprehend the louse. A job well done.

 

[Dixon Cannon]

Correction and clarification...

Let us have a little perspective on this situation. The bottom line is an alleged rapist is being brought to stand a fair trial. Dog Chapman did not rape or murder to apprehend the louse. A job well done.

...Andrew Luster is a CONVICTED rapist who was brought back to begin his 124 year prison SENTENCE! He and the Mexican authorities knew his status.

I agree, completely!.... a job well done 'Dog'!

-dixon cannon

 

[Paisley]

I thought Chapman had already been to jail in Mexico for this. It's my understanding that people who are wanted by the law aren't always even extradited to the state (as in, within the U.S.) where they are wanted. I don't see any reason the U.S. should go to the time, trouble and expense of extraditing someone who isn't breaking the law here. If he broke Mexican laws, let Mexico get him if they really don't have anything better to do.

And by the way, what was Luster doing running around loose after he'd been convicted?

 

[Marc Chevalier]

As for me, I say UNLEASH the DOG! and while we're at it, close the border! :rage:

Then he won't be able to get back in. Should we tell him where the spare key is hidden?


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[Vladimir Berkov]

Chapman is an idiot for trying this sort of thing twice.

There is a very good reason why the US doesn't want people going into foreign countries and abducting suspects. It is because we don't want foreign nationals coming into the US and abducting US citizens to stand trial in a foreign country. It is a simple issue of state sovereignty and reciprocity.