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Originally Posted by HarryT
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Please read the post that I was replying to before you start calling people names. The poster claimed "you can't be guilty of a crime if you're outside the juresdiction of the law". I was providing a counter-example to this statement, NOT saying that the two crimes were the same.
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I suspect that if a US or UK citizen moved to a country where sex with young teens was not illegal, the US/UK gov't would not attempt to prosecute that person. It's only on return that it's done. Or on attempting to leave--because in many countries, it's illegal to
act with intent to break some laws, even if the intent is to go somewhere that it's not illegal.
Conspiracy is still a crime, even if the intended crime conspired about doesn't occur. In the US, crossing state lines with intent to commit a crime is illegal... leaving the States entirely involves crossing state lines. *That* could be prosecuted, even if the actions committed in another country cannot.
Also, there's a BIG difference between "citizen of Country A goes to Country B to do something that's illegal in Country A but not B," and "Citizen of Country B does something that's entirely legal where he lives... and Country A prosecutes him and finds him guilty."
We do not prosecute Japanese and Italian citizens for underage drinking, nor do we prosecute their adults for giving wine to children. Not even when they come here for vacation.