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86. Not in a foreign country

Tue Feb 25, 2020, 05:56 PM

Feb 2020

In fact, a lawyer might be more aware that a different country has different laws. Sometimes when a lawyer, you are asked about laws in other countries or even states and you have to explain you are only admitted to the bar of the states for which you passed the bar exam. A Delaware lawyer is no more a lawyer in South Africa than any other person who is not a lawyer. You're a layperson is every jurisdiction where you are not admitted. And other countries can be completely different. The US system is based on the English common law, so there could be some familiarity there but other countries don't even have that and are based on something different.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

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Biden WAS held up at the SA airport for refusing to separate from AA Congressmen there with him. [View all] highplainsdem Feb 2020 OP

K&R. n/t rzemanfl Feb 2020 #1

Thank you! BlueCaliDem Feb 2020 #2

Biden is to me positive and energetic and composed every time I see him. Prosper Feb 2020 #50

Thank you. Tired of this crap. DarthDem Feb 2020 #3

Post removed Post removed Feb 2020 #7

I figured there had to be some truth to the story. honest.abe Feb 2020 #4

Oh no, NOW you're done it! Will the people here who claimed it never happened retract... George II Feb 2020 #5

Nah, but they look a bit silly if they keep saying...best course is to pretend it didn't happen... Demsrule86 Feb 2020 #19

Nope PatSeg Feb 2020 #37

Why? jberryhill Feb 2020 #97

Nope!!!! DarthDem Feb 2020 #102

Good! IluvPitties Feb 2020 #6

Nice try, but not an arrest. doxyluv13 Feb 2020 #8

welp HarlanPepper Feb 2020 #10

This election is a shitshow. BusyBeingBest Feb 2020 #13

Illustrating the character of your candidate again, eh? LanternWaste Feb 2020 #36

Huh? BusyBeingBest Feb 2020 #38

How about detained?? honest.abe Feb 2020 #14

Apartheid South Africa ProgressDiv Feb 2020 #67

Exactly. I was playing semantics with that person I replied to. honest.abe Feb 2020 #84

If someone won't let me leave and locks me up somewhere, I consider it being detained or Demsrule86 Feb 2020 #18

You obviously don't watch Live PD Boomer Feb 2020 #32

Yeah, I didn't watch "The Apprentice" either ProgressDiv Feb 2020 #68

Huh - that is definitely not what we are taught in NY - you do not allow someone jmg257 Feb 2020 #105

And a millionaire ain't "rich", just a man of the people... LanternWaste Feb 2020 #34

Yes it is, I went through this on a Federal secuirty form, I was pissed at what they called an arres uponit7771 Feb 2020 #42

Nobody cares. This is silly. yardwork Feb 2020 #56

The word "arrest" originates with with the French word for "stop." MineralMan Feb 2020 #58

Whatevah chuckles Loki Liesmith Feb 2020 #101

"So that sounds as if they were blocked, too, at the time." jberryhill Feb 2020 #9

+1 jalan48 Feb 2020 #11

The New York Times has evidence of this...maybe Young forgot it or didn't consider it Demsrule86 Feb 2020 #15

The New York Times has evidence of what? jberryhill Feb 2020 #76

Because Young unfortunately had more experience with being blocked/detained/arrested, and Biden highplainsdem Feb 2020 #20

I read this morning that Young did say they were detained OKNancy Feb 2020 #80

I would be interested to see that further statement of Ambassador Young jberryhill Feb 2020 #82

Boom. cwydro Feb 2020 #89

I figured as much...you would think they would have figured it out by now...with corn pop? Is that Demsrule86 Feb 2020 #12

K&R nt redqueen Feb 2020 #16

That's a detention, not an arrest cannabis_flower Feb 2020 #17

Maybe in the United States, but that happened in South Africa in 1976. George II Feb 2020 #21

From the description I just read.. cannabis_flower Feb 2020 #22

and we should all have encyclopedic nuanced definitions at the ready all the time. lapfog_1 Feb 2020 #24

Well cannabis_flower Feb 2020 #25

as sdomeone who has been "detained" by police before lapfog_1 Feb 2020 #30

As much as it "felt" like cannabis_flower Feb 2020 #35

Like I said... Joe should be more careful when choosing his language. lapfog_1 Feb 2020 #41

A brief detention of a US Senator on a diplomatic mission would be HUGE news jberryhill Feb 2020 #96

He's a graduate of Syracuse U Law School and practiced criminal defense law jberryhill Feb 2020 #70

Semantics honest.abe Feb 2020 #28

He couldn't leave, that's an arrest uponit7771 Feb 2020 #72

I probably would have used the word arrested, too. Not detained or detention. LizBeth Feb 2020 #23

You are right cannabis_flower Feb 2020 #39

Really? squirecam Feb 2020 #54

This Turbineguy Feb 2020 #26

Biden is a damned fine man. Was then. Is now. Poeraria Feb 2020 #27

I love uncle Joe but this is painful to watch joost5 Feb 2020 #29

His speech is rote, hurried and he's not really listening to himself at all. BusyBeingBest Feb 2020 #33

When Biden paces himself and speaks from the heart he can command a room joost5 Feb 2020 #43

The only good thing, if he did become the nominee, is that both he and Donnie Dump BusyBeingBest Feb 2020 #47

Wow... just wow padah513 Feb 2020 #79

Wow what? Joe is obviously tired. Probably all the candidates in their 70's are tired, because BusyBeingBest Feb 2020 #81

Yes. In fact, in those cases he has a real gift. emmaverybo Feb 2020 #78

::sigh:: Grendam Feb 2020 #31

+1000 eom counting Feb 2020 #61

You need to get this out there cherryinpa Feb 2020 #40

K&R quickesst Feb 2020 #44

I remember about the hold up . . . Iliyah Feb 2020 #45

Held Up means Arrest to Biden?? Ahhhh....Isn't he a lawyer? nt USALiberal Feb 2020 #46

Arrest means to stop, from old French "arester," to stop. ucrdem Feb 2020 #55

Wow, really? nt USALiberal Feb 2020 #60

Yes, I went through this with a security form ... they didn't delinate the too ... pissed me off uponit7771 Feb 2020 #73

It's a long flight. He was having a rest. jberryhill Feb 2020 #95

Yes, he is jberryhill Feb 2020 #71

Parsing every word. AGAIN LakeArenal Feb 2020 #48

He's a lawyer for gods sake! He knows what an arrest is!!! nt USALiberal Feb 2020 #49

Not a lawyer in SA LakeArenal Feb 2020 #51

LOL, ok! nt USALiberal Feb 2020 #52

I'm talking parsing words LakeArenal Feb 2020 #59

Lawyers are not automatons treestar Feb 2020 #83

Lets just agree most would know when they were arrested! Nt USALiberal Feb 2020 #85

Not in a foreign country treestar Feb 2020 #86

LOL, the guy with him knew they were not arrested.......... USALiberal Feb 2020 #87

Because he was dutifully avoiding the "whites only" line jberryhill Feb 2020 #90

Humans recall things differently treestar Feb 2020 #107

Yeah jberryhill Feb 2020 #108

Biden wasn't there treestar Feb 2020 #112

that wasn't the point treestar Feb 2020 #106

Oh give it a rest jberryhill Feb 2020 #109

I might. treestar Feb 2020 #111

K&R for visibility. nt tblue37 Feb 2020 #53

I think this is more than fair to point out. Tom Rinaldo Feb 2020 #57

Andrew Young says it did not happen. former9thward Feb 2020 #62

Well this is about apartheid and there were 2 separate entrances FakeNoose Feb 2020 #63

It is highly unlikely that Andrew Young would have put up with that jberryhill Feb 2020 #74

No he didn't, he said "I don't think he was". George II Feb 2020 #98

Yeah, A Senator with him is arrested and he doesn't know about it. former9thward Feb 2020 #99

He couldn't see it from the "colored" line he was standing in jberryhill Feb 2020 #100

joe pamdb Feb 2020 #64

Biden has entered the avant-garde phase of his campaign Politicub Feb 2020 #65

Thank you! Cha Feb 2020 #103

I take back calling him a "Lyin' dog-face pony soldier." (nt) JaneQPublic Feb 2020 #66

He said he was arrested in the streets of Soweto melman Feb 2020 #69

Both Andrew Young and Charles Diggs went along with it, apparently? jberryhill Feb 2020 #75

Unlike Rethugs or the UK's David Cameron, who used to parade with 'Hang Mandela' signs sandensea Feb 2020 #77

Oh for crying out loud. cwydro Feb 2020 #88

It was an embellishment that got out of hand jberryhill Feb 2020 #110

You do realize this is entirely circular jberryhill Feb 2020 #91

According to the WaPo article, Joe said Mandela personally thanked him for getting arrested-- BusyBeingBest Feb 2020 #93

Yeah, I saw that jberryhill Feb 2020 #94

Thank you for posting this Gothmog Feb 2020 #92

Another reason why Biden's the One. oasis Feb 2020 #104