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cdglow ago

  • mind blown*

This idea of the pay to play scam and purchasing ambassadorships was a holy shit kind of moment for me when put into context of pizzagate.

I was previously thinking that a lot of rich people were just bored and wanted to get invited to glamorous dinner parties and connect with businessmen and politicians and the like for typical political corruption and profiteering. While I'm sure that's part of it, having diplomatic immunity might be worth an incredible deal to some people who want to engage in this activity so that they were sure about never going to jail. For the right people with money, this could be worth a ton. Do diplomatic immunities extend to sex crimes, crimes against children, etc? Is this the case in just some countries or all countries?

The community (I plan on looking into this, but am not a lawyer) should look into the WikiLeaks emails and see if there was unusual bidding patterns on ambassadorships to countries that had greater sex trafficking or had laws that allowed diplomats a much bigger leeway to commit crimes and get away with it.

If there's something random like Rich Person A paid a great deal more than expected for an Ambassadorship to country X, then looking into their background and conduct and local media during their term for clues might be worthwhile.

CROM_God_of_Shitkind ago

Diplomatic immunity is only useful for an easy way around public employee/government policy aka 'the law' to most people who don't understand it. It does not typically provide immunity in cases of breach of the peace e.g. harm or loss- pedo rape shit.