So, if they get bagged by their respective national police forces, pardon me, but what THE FUCK has it got to do with the US ?

Paris, because she knows what it like to be shafted by dumb 'merkins.

Because those 419ers were operating in Germany. Scamming Germans. Taking cash from Germany. Does it ring the f**king bell??? Not worldwide, with few shit unsecured comps in MerkinLand but WORLDWIDE.

As well UK, France and rest of the counties in the world can ask for him to be extradited. But nobody except MerkinLand is doing so. Why? Because they believe that Brazilian justice system is good enough to do the job. Because rest of the world doesn't have that messed up Merkin mentality about being superior in everything, thus needing to show it.

//Rant over

Anyway, knowing Brazilian politics and their animosity towards MerkinLand, there's a small chance of them succeeding. After all Brazil was one of the countries that introduced visas to Merkins as a retaliation to them requiring visas from Brazilians. Paid visas ;)

But then again , six months in any Brazillian prison is equivalent to approximately thirty years in places like San Quentin or Fort Leavenworth for the conditions within are truly that bad they make the US cable TV show "oz" look like an under populated fantasy show !

You anti-American Brits are a puzzling lot. The U.S. acted in its newfound role of "world police" to save evidently-helpless England from being over-run by the krauts in WWII. Which was mighty gracious of the U.S. considering that the British burned down the Americans' White House a few generations earlier (the War of 1812).

But wait - if the U.S. had "let" England get taken over by the Germans, the U.S. wouldn't have been able to use England as a convenient jumping off point, aircraft-fueling point, etc, for future U.S.-world-domination plans... so the U.S. rescued England NOT because they liked you, but because they wanted to use your LAND. Hahahah! Oh. So maybe that's why the British hate the U.S... Hmm.

Or maybe it's just this, from the Washington Post:

" "I think Britain's attitude toward America," Davies said, "is very much of that of a great aunt, looking with some envy and some disdain on the nephew who has done really rather well." "

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/04/AR2007050402295.html

Jealous, in other words. Figures. At least the U.S. is more than just a big museum, living off of past faded glories - *so far* - but if China "takes over the world" someday, that may change. Every dog has his day.

What's sad is that some affluent Americans think *kindly* of England nowadays, or they think of England as the mothership from which their ancestors came (true in some cases), some of them even watch British re-runs on PBS (which usually aren't even very good, like most of the rest of TV - American included). And other Americans, ignorant of how the English feel about Americans, read certain British websites - at least for a *while*, until they get tired of the constant stream of anti-American bile which they'd erroneously assumed was representative of a small minority of British, but perhaps not.

Is anti-Americanism on The Reg good for the Reg's business model, advertisers or whatever, I wonder? Seems that Americans have an awful lot of money of money to spend on things. It would be a shame, a shame I say, ;) if they were driven away by constant anti-American sentiment which, to be frank, gets tiresome after about the zillionth time of hearing it. Oh well, blame it on GW (many Americans already do).

In retrospect, one has to sometimes wonders about the wisdom of the U.S. interfering (in its yet-undiscovered role as world police) in WWII, helping England out of its predicament. Maybe it wouldn't have made much difference if all of England spoke nothing but German now.

...how many is a brazillion?

The leather one with E=mc^2 written in binary with studs.

AC do you remember a small incident called Pearl Harbour? It seems that was the reason the US joined in WW2, before that they were too busy making huge profits from arms sales. Nothing to do with helping anyone. The evidence is clear that the US only ever acts in its own self interest.

As for British TV, it is far superior to the all-image-no-subsatnce rubbish the US produces. The only succesfull US comedy's are cartoons.

Whilst I do not live on Britain, if I had to choose it would be a no brainer, Britain all the way.

The US is full of overcompensating SUV driving gun nuts, much like yourself no doubt!