@@PrivateMcPrivateback when I was young they still had cool toys or even small games in them. Now I’ve heard more and more that it’s just cheap crap inside. But I also have to say that I need choked on any of the toys inside. After all it’s not that different from other small toys you have as a kid Greetings from Germany
In 1980 the Iranian embassy in London was besieged using weapons smuggled in using Iraqi diplomatic bags, (Google operation Nimrod it’s actually very cool although unfortunately 2 innocent people were killed)
I remember when I worked in the airport, one of the things we were taught about diplomatic bags was that they could be scanned but not searched, and only for security concerns. For example, before loading onto a plane, the checked bag is scanned, like all others. If a firearm or large lithium battery was detected, it would be set aside (all bags are treated this way). However, unlike a regular bag, which can then be searched with either the customer or an airline representative present and customs agent (or federal Police in the event of serious offenses), the diplomatic bag could not be removed from flight. We would have to inform the bags owner of what was screened, and then they would have the choice of removing the item or leaving it and letting it be loaded normally. Fortunately, like this video says, majority of diplomats are actually reasonable people, and when you tell them that their lithium battery is considered a danger to the flight, they usually are happy to remove it.
There was an incident in the UK in early 2020 where a US diplomat hit and run, leaving a motorcyclist dead. The country was very angry that she got away with it without any repercussions.
I would have ordered a diplomat in the USA to go kill someone so that the USA know how it feels. Retribution is a must if dont want them to do it again.
@@kungsjanis5139 with that kind of mindset you'd eventually start a war between the US and UK. One diplomat hitting and running someone without any orders to do so is one thing, its an entirely different thing to order a diplomat to murder some random person.
@@mappingshaman5280 "with that kind of mindset you'd eventually start a war between the US and UK." If you must wage war to justice so be it. England is not weak. "One diplomat hitting and running someone without any orders to do so is one thing, its an entirely different thing to order a diplomat to murder some random person." The diplomat who has killed a citizens of mine should have his immunity revoked and ordered to hand himself in. If this does not happen its only right to kill a relative of his.
@@kungsjanis5139 "if you must wage war to justice so be it." So you'd start a war between nuclear powers killing hundreds of thousands if not millions of people which has the potential to cause ww3, just because somebody ran some random person over? That just seems stupid. "England is not weak." LOL. The only thing its got going for it is nukes. The military has been cut to shit. "The diplomat who has killed a citizen of mine should have his immunity revoked and hand himself in." Agreed "If this does not happen its only right to kill a relative of his." A: how do you know who his relatives are? B: how is it fair to kill some random person because of what their relative did? An example is Hitler. One of hitlers relatives (i think his nephew but I could be wrong) fought in the US army against Hitler. Do you think its fair to kill that guy purely because he's related to Hitler who is evil?
Imagine when checking the news, the news reports a diplomat brings kinder surprise eggs to the United States, because of his friends children wants to eat one for his birthday.
I don't think they are, I see them a lot, although I'm not sure if they have toys inside them or not. If I recall correctly, they are illegal by techicality. It's against the law to put potential choking hazards inside food, especially food or snacks designed for children. While it's unlikely that anyone will choke on the prize inside the egg, it is still a potential choking hazard hidden within food.
as former diplomatic son i can confirm these facts. but in 99.999% of the cases you don't feel your diplomatic status if you behave like a normal human being. having a diplomatic status is an honor you should value but not exploit
you are a great person, you didn't exploit your status like some people do here where i live you can see diplomatic license plates do whatever the fuck they want on the roads and not get stopped
I made so much money selling coke as a diplomats son in the 90s, cops hated me but nothing they could do. I’d just hang out by unis, and everyone knew who I was.
Almost forgot, here is a link to my Twitter: twitter.com/PoliticswPaint *Regarding Kinder Surprise Eggs in the US:* The original “Kinder Surprise Egg”, the kind which is a hollow chocolate egg with an encased toy inside, is still illegal in the US as of the making of this video. There is, however, a variant called “Kinder Joy Egg”, which has become legal in the US since 2017. This one is fairly different, as it is an egg shaped plastic item of which one half is filled with chocolate cream and the other half contains a toy. You can search pictures of both on google to see the difference. Just wanted to clarify that since I’ve gotten multiple comments asking about this.
In Brazil, it's an easter traditional to gift giant chocolate eggs to children. I got a giant Kinder egg once. Sweet, sweet, choke hazardous astronaut toys, I loved it
It is a common misconception that Kinder Surprise Eggs are illegal in the US because of concerns about choking. They are actually illegal because the US bans any non-food item in food unless it is "functional" (i.e. unless it somehow helps you eat or hold the food, like the stick in a kebab or lollipop), regardless of the age of the typical consumer. Since the toy inside a Kinder egg does not help you eat the egg, it is considered non-functional and prohibited. The law was originally intended to stop people from adulterating food with sawdust and other non-edible filler materials.
It makes sense that this was really necessary. In pre-renaissance eras envoys were entirely subject to the whims of it's ruler and this often lead to losing their lives if they had to deliver messages that are particularly poorly received like ultimatums. The mongols come to mind in particular.
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It makes sense for ideologically different countries, its mostly meant to cover things like something being legal in one state but illegal in the other. I think its fair because the host country could always just kick out the diplomat
Its pretty simply if you can understand 2nd order consequences. You presume the home country would be okay with arresting on their diplomats. What if they aren't. These can cause a souring of relations which can have all sorts of geo-poltical consequences and historically can even lead to war. Congrats. You've turned 1 death into 50k.
its to make sure, that the host country cannot under ANY circumstances whatsoever legally do anything to the diplomat like if Russia and the US got mad at each other over something. the Russians cannot under any circumstances arrested and thereby use US diplomats as bargaining tips or vise vesa. so countries cant just fake a crime and use it to at least temporarily have the diplomat as a defacto hostige like when china arrested some canadians citizens in china. after huawei CEO (or whatever she was to the company) was arrested in canada i didn't explain it very good but i hope you get what i'm saying
Diplomatic immunity is when you organise a large cocaine trafficking operation through an embassy in Argentina and get away with it. Or when you nick expensive bikes from all over town and then try to sell a deputy magistrate his own bike and get away with it
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Diplomat causes fatal car accident: DRC: "Ok You can try him in France" Russia: "Nah, but we'll try him at home." Saudi Arabia: "Just take this bribe."
That's more or less how Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries deal with crime, you can buy your way out of punishment if you compensate the victim or their family.
In Portugal, the children from the Iraqi Ambassador beaten very harshly a citizen to the point of several week hospitalisation. The whole family refused to drop immunity and they moved back in the end I think
All this only applies if the diplomat isn't American. For American citizens the US seems to enforce an extremely broad definition of who is immune from prosecution
If you're a US citizen or their family member, and you're associated with the US government, or represent the US abroad in some other way, the US government will go to great lengths to keep you out of trouble. In their opinion, only the US government has jurisdiction over such people, regardless of their actual diplomatic status.
Diplomatic bags ares till subjected to Xray machines and can be denied entry if illegal items are seen inside. The bag can not be opened by airport authorieties and any documents inside are not allowed to be looked at.
The A555, the first actual Autobahn in Germany, was called "the diplomats' highway", because it goes from Cologne to Bonn, the former German capital… And rather a smallish town, so diplomats would go on the A555 to go to Cologne, ignoring the speed limits.
as of today the A555 is for the most part without a speed limit. The B9 which leads from the District Bad Godesberg where a lot of big Villas from the Diplomats are located, to the Goverment District, also is called like this.
Murder of Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey is a good example. Saudi diplomats in Turkey murdered him, and Turkish gov. didn't arrest them because of diplomatic immunity and they fled to Saudi Arabia. Turkish gov. was critisized internally afterwards for not taking hard action.
Countries doing this will be responsible for our Diplomatic framework eventually crashing down on itself. Because this is something a country simply cannot ignore. A citizen of a foreign country got murdered by Diplomatic Representatives of another country in the country they work in. Turkey should have cancelled all diplomatic relations to Saudi-Arabia after this. Same goes for Germany with that Cyclist incident btw - unless the former Diplomat voluntarily submitted themselves to a trial. But this was a time when Saudi-Arabia was even more heavily protected from Washington than usually. I mean they murdered an American Citizen on foreign soil and the White House didn't even react to it. They were totally unphased and did nothing.
This video reminded me of some Qatari prince which had diplomatic immunity in the US and decided to race around Beverly Hills in a Ferrari speeding, blowing stop signs and traffic lights and even hitting an occupied vehicle. He then fled the country and was never arrested.
U know last year in India a UAE diplomats diplomatic bag was checked by asking the UAE consolate in India So maybe everytime you can not smuggle illegal chocolate eggs🥚 🤣🤣
Kinder eggs is also banned in the US don't know why other countries banned this eggs while there are even more toys that are more choke hazard than the toys inside those eggs.
good video but i feel like it should have covered some more sensative topics like Harry Dunn in the UK was 19 and was killed by US diplomats wife who was driving on the wrong side of the road and fled the UK after hitting him claiming diplomatic immunity and is currently facing no charges despite the UK asking the US to try her in court. whats sensitive here is that it was the diplomats family who asked for immunity and ran away before the crime was reported.
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So about the concept of embassies being the territories of the country being represented; since its still the host country's territory (at least officially), I'd say that the territory on which the embassy stands is leased.
Norway once searched through a diplomatic bag (in breach of the Vienna Convention) because they suspected a bomb was being carried in it. They withheld the bag and requested the diplomat's presence, which was furious that Norway would hinder the diplomatic mail and accuse them of concealing a bomb, or they would open it without him. Lo and behold the bag was opened to protests from the diplomats, which quickly fell silent when there was, in fact, a bomb inside.
Am from Norway and i have never heard about this before. I try to google it witch if it was true would have given results for sure. I did not find any so am calling this claim bullshit. Please stop sharing misinformation.
Regarding diplomatic immunity, can a state (state A) expell another state's diplomat (state B) as a countermeasure for state B's violation of an international obligation towards state A. I know that states usually conduct this act on international plane but I don't think it is lawful since the diplomats are entitled to immunity and inviolability right, which may only be precluded for national security reasons.
Well, according to the international conventions, a state can legally declare a foreign diplomat ‘persona non grata’ without reason. But in practice, there is usually a reason given, in most cases some form of break-down in diplomatic relations or an incident involving the diplomat. Of course, this does’t immediately expel a diplomat, that would be indeed against international law - but it does give the targeted diplomat a short time window leave the country before the diplomatic immunity expires.
Yes, individuals can be PNGed if they (or their family members) commit a serious enough incident, but usually their own embassy will send them packing first. PNGs are often used for getting caught or being suspected of espionage (which is a government function and thus has some coverage under diplomatic assurances); the US and USSR/Russia expel each others' diplomats fairly regularly if they think they're in their intelligence community, but this decision has to be balanced with having their own spies/possible regular staff expelled in retaliation. Same goes for entire diplomatic facilities, as had happened with the consulates in St. Petersburg and San Francisco, as well as Houston and Chéngdū.
An American government employees wife murdered some guy in Britain, ran away and they cant get her now. So pathetic that our government doesnt turn her over.
Kinder are now legal, so long as the toy and the chocolate are separate. They are in the store near me, you open the egg (in half) and each half of the plastic egg is sealed separately, chocolate on one side toy on the other.
I remember a few years ago here in holland this happened: Turkey: *send a minister with diplomatic immunuty to their embassy in Amsterdam to convince dual citizens to vote* Holland: *TELLS POLICE TO GET READY TO OPEN FIRE ON THAT MINISTER* This is an oversimplification but I've never seen such a stupid political choice in my life.
@@liammarra4003 Wouldn't exactly call Chiang Kai Shek a Fascist, I guess You could call him a Authoritarian but not that does not make someone automatically a fascist since there is so many different types of Authoritarianism.
There are two kinds of Kinder eggs "supprise" and "joy" only one of them are legal in USA. There are many videos on YT that can explain this better than me
I had a friend in high school who had diplomatic immunity due to his father's Job. If he forgot his wallet and wanted to get something at the store during our break, he'd just put whatever he wanted into his backpack and zip it shut. Legally he probably could have been searched, but he relied on the fact that his diplomatic passport would scare off any cop. Crazy
as a general rule, i don't think it's healthy for a kids mental development to know that they basically above the law, no matter what they do you know the line "do you know who my father is!!" kinda like what kids of rich/powerful people often suffer from not saying the person you are talking about are like that, just a general ting often seen
@@mappingshaman5280 Bhutan is picky with who they recognize, for example they do not recognize the US but recognizes Canada, they do not recognize both Chinas probably for neutrality reasons, etc. It's weird but I ain't da government, I'll have to ask if I ever got the money. They do not even recognize the UK ffor some reason (recognition as in diplomatic relationships)
kinder surprise eggs are actually really common in the us now. idk if they have the surprise inside or not, i've never bought one. but i can hardly go to a grocery store without seeing them nowadays
UN diplomats get away with so much with their blue passports. I grew up in geneva so it wouldnt be uncommon to meet someone who works in the UN or knows a diplomat or whatever; and I knew this girl who's dad was the diplomat for japan at the time and she told me that once he had to go through security (i forget where) because he left his blue passport with his wife; and had gotten so comfortbale just flashing his blue passport and walking by that he forgot that he was carrying a bunch of weed as personal smoke, and im talking like a few ounces too. So they search his bag obviously and they're in the middle of arresting this guy while he's like: "No I'm telling you im a UN diplomat" and security is like "yeah, yeah sure just get in the cuffs" until his wife runs over waving the blue passport like "what are you doing he's a diplomat!!" , and then they uncuff him and let him get on his plane. Crazy.
The kinder surprise egg ban in the USA is really stupid. I understand that “people can choke on the toys inside them blah blah blah,” but personal guns are allowed in the USA. Presumably there’s been a bunch of lawsuits from kinder eggs, but still...
i knew a guy that got attached to a diplomatic mission here in the USA. he would drive his car 120mph (200kph) on the freeway and when pulled over once, didn't even roll the window down. just slapped his id against the window and the cop spun around and went back into his car and left. man, i want to be one so badly. i would be the best diplomat out there, throwing my empty beer bottles out my car window while driving by the Polish ambassador and giving him the finger. and nobody would stop me
8:09, funny little thing with that. Iran back in the '70s and '80s, would not let the DC Fire Department on the property even though they didn't have a choice. So during the embassy siege DCFD companies would just sit outside and wait for the building to go sky high.
Kinder surprise eggs are definitely legal in the USA, your information from 2012 is outdated. I worked at a big chain grocery store in college and we sold them (Edit: in 2017 they became legal, look it up).
Those are "Kinder Joy Eggs" and are a variant which is legal in the US since 2017, as you say. The original "Kinder Surprise Eggs" however remain banned.
@@PoliticswithPaint It's like me saying without context alcohol sales are illegal in Munich on the theresienwiese during oktoberfest, important information (pandemic) is missing. Great video though Mr. Paint 👍
best way to counter this is to simply say " DONT BOTHER sending another diplomat if we arent allowed to judge this one " lets see waht will be sacrificed relationships that are worth billions or a simple diplomat
@@lovelyhomeboy2782 you prove my point,the relationships ARE WORTH BILLIONS,so it can be made to work,if they are pressured they WILL bend because its simply NOT WORTH IT to just abandon a nation because a diplomat cant do murder on the streets thats the idea,establish rules,make them KNOWN and UNDERSTOOD,they like it fine welcome to said country they dont,what a shame,i see you on zoom call
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@@KaitiansCountryballs Chinese Englishman?
That last thing with the bag really scares me. Imagine if some lunatic uses their diplomatic immunity to bring kinder surprise eggs here
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Agreed! That is so scary, much scarier than bombs! Wait why am I comparing something with bombs, bombs aren't scary at all!
I know right?!!!
Seriously though, I tried one and they SUCK! I'll take Kinder Joy over them any day!
@@PrivateMcPrivateback when I was young they still had cool toys or even small games in them. Now I’ve heard more and more that it’s just cheap crap inside.
But I also have to say that I need choked on any of the toys inside. After all it’s not that different from other small toys you have as a kid
Greetings from Germany
In 1980 the Iranian embassy in London was besieged using weapons smuggled in using Iraqi diplomatic bags, (Google operation Nimrod it’s actually very cool although unfortunately 2 innocent people were killed)
I remember when I worked in the airport, one of the things we were taught about diplomatic bags was that they could be scanned but not searched, and only for security concerns. For example, before loading onto a plane, the checked bag is scanned, like all others. If a firearm or large lithium battery was detected, it would be set aside (all bags are treated this way). However, unlike a regular bag, which can then be searched with either the customer or an airline representative present and customs agent (or federal Police in the event of serious offenses), the diplomatic bag could not be removed from flight. We would have to inform the bags owner of what was screened, and then they would have the choice of removing the item or leaving it and letting it be loaded normally. Fortunately, like this video says, majority of diplomats are actually reasonable people, and when you tell them that their lithium battery is considered a danger to the flight, they usually are happy to remove it.
What about their SMITH & WESSON 686 PLUS 3-5-7 MAGNUM SERIES .357 MAG 7IN 7RD?
Are they usually happy to remove it too?
@WhyBecause. not sure how much danger you think a gun in a checked bag presents to a flight.
@@FlyingHangman :D I wasn’t being THAT serious
Lol
So the TSA cannot just blindly steal a laptop out of a checked bag. Wow yet another reason to be a diplomat in order to receive basic human rights
I can't believe I just got exited over this. What has my life come to
HA, NERD!
*proceeds to internally cry in anguish*
What do you mean? This is amazing!
Thats what it feels like to become cultured lol.
To new levels of intellect. Embrace it for it is not only healthy but neccessary in a meaningful life.
different strokes for different folks
Diplomatic immunity is when I can speed without worrying
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@@ichduoderer1498 a94 Richtung Passau regelt ✌️
@@song-one1910 hast du noch mehr Ecken auf Lager
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If you're American you can even kill people, without even needing to be legally covered by the rules on dilpomatic immunity
There was an incident in the UK in early 2020 where a US diplomat hit and run, leaving a motorcyclist dead. The country was very angry that she got away with it without any repercussions.
I would have ordered a diplomat in the USA to go kill someone so that the USA know how it feels. Retribution is a must if dont want them to do it again.
@@kungsjanis5139 with that kind of mindset you'd eventually start a war between the US and UK. One diplomat hitting and running someone without any orders to do so is one thing, its an entirely different thing to order a diplomat to murder some random person.
The uk is an American puppet state, its natural there would be no repercussions
@@mappingshaman5280 "with that kind of mindset you'd eventually start a war between the US and UK." If you must wage war to justice so be it. England is not weak.
"One diplomat hitting and running someone without any orders to do so is one thing, its an entirely different thing to order a diplomat to murder some random person." The diplomat who has killed a citizens of mine should have his immunity revoked and ordered to hand himself in. If this does not happen its only right to kill a relative of his.
@@kungsjanis5139 "if you must wage war to justice so be it." So you'd start a war between nuclear powers killing hundreds of thousands if not millions of people which has the potential to cause ww3, just because somebody ran some random person over? That just seems stupid.
"England is not weak." LOL. The only thing its got going for it is nukes. The military has been cut to shit.
"The diplomat who has killed a citizen of mine should have his immunity revoked and hand himself in." Agreed
"If this does not happen its only right to kill a relative of his."
A: how do you know who his relatives are?
B: how is it fair to kill some random person because of what their relative did? An example is Hitler. One of hitlers relatives (i think his nephew but I could be wrong) fought in the US army against Hitler. Do you think its fair to kill that guy purely because he's related to Hitler who is evil?
Imagine when checking the news, the news reports a diplomat brings kinder surprise eggs to the United States, because of his friends children wants to eat one for his birthday.
Lmao
I don't think they are, I see them a lot, although I'm not sure if they have toys inside them or not. If I recall correctly, they are illegal by techicality. It's against the law to put potential choking hazards inside food, especially food or snacks designed for children. While it's unlikely that anyone will choke on the prize inside the egg, it is still a potential choking hazard hidden within food.
@@nevets2371those are a different kinder egg products.
The Kinder Joy Egg sold in the US is less fun.
and that's totally legal. my father imported alcohol and ham to iran with no problems
@@Suyalusits actually illegal to import kinder surprise eggs into the US, in 2015, border agents seized around 30,000 kinder surprise eggs
as former diplomatic son i can confirm these facts. but in 99.999% of the cases you don't feel your diplomatic status if you behave like a normal human being. having a diplomatic status is an honor you should value but not exploit
you are a great person, you didn't exploit your status like some people do
here where i live you can see diplomatic license plates do whatever the fuck they want on the roads and not get stopped
I made so much money selling coke as a diplomats son in the 90s, cops hated me but nothing they could do. I’d just hang out by unis, and everyone knew who I was.
@@dieselgoinham you are human waste
Thank you so much for a reasonable and rational response to your immunity. You set a good example, and well-represented your country.
@@dieselgoinhamwell, I can tell your father and country would have been deeply disappointed in you..
Almost forgot, here is a link to my Twitter: twitter.com/PoliticswPaint
*Regarding Kinder Surprise Eggs in the US:*
The original “Kinder Surprise Egg”, the kind which is a hollow chocolate egg with an encased toy inside, is still illegal in the US as of the making of this video. There is, however, a variant called “Kinder Joy Egg”, which has become legal in the US since 2017. This one is fairly different, as it is an egg shaped plastic item of which one half is filled with chocolate cream and the other half contains a toy. You can search pictures of both on google to see the difference.
Just wanted to clarify that since I’ve gotten multiple comments asking about this.
Ew twitter
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4:30 did he say prosecute or persecute..?
In Brazil, it's an easter traditional to gift giant chocolate eggs to children. I got a giant Kinder egg once.
Sweet, sweet, choke hazardous astronaut toys, I loved it
It is a common misconception that Kinder Surprise Eggs are illegal in the US because of concerns about choking. They are actually illegal because the US bans any non-food item in food unless it is "functional" (i.e. unless it somehow helps you eat or hold the food, like the stick in a kebab or lollipop), regardless of the age of the typical consumer. Since the toy inside a Kinder egg does not help you eat the egg, it is considered non-functional and prohibited. The law was originally intended to stop people from adulterating food with sawdust and other non-edible filler materials.
It makes sense that this was really necessary. In pre-renaissance eras envoys were entirely subject to the whims of it's ruler and this often lead to losing their lives if they had to deliver messages that are particularly poorly received like ultimatums. The mongols come to mind in particular.
Awesome video!
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@@checcmac8693 You was right lil bro
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Just-Just-Just-Just like the Bad guy from Lethal weapon 2
It makes sense for ideologically different countries, its mostly meant to cover things like something being legal in one state but illegal in the other.
I think its fair because the host country could always just kick out the diplomat
Like the diplomant being gay and being in a country where it's under death penalty.
@@fraizie6815 exactly... but tbh diplomats are usually carefully chosen so if youre gay youre definitly not send to a gay hating country type stuff
@@fraizie6815So send a different diplomat.
@@thmxsz if you're not openly gay you might be sent to one anyway
@@fraizie6815 thats more your fault though, if you dont tell your employers they cant adjust for it
Very good video as always!
The diplomatic bag makes sense, how they on paper can't be held responsible for murder is beyond me
Its pretty simply if you can understand 2nd order consequences.
You presume the home country would be okay with arresting on their diplomats.
What if they aren't. These can cause a souring of relations which can have all sorts of geo-poltical consequences and historically can even lead to war.
Congrats. You've turned 1 death into 50k.
its to make sure, that the host country cannot under ANY circumstances whatsoever legally do anything to the diplomat
like if Russia and the US got mad at each other over something. the Russians cannot under any circumstances arrested and thereby use US diplomats as bargaining tips or vise vesa. so countries cant just fake a crime and use it to at least temporarily have the diplomat as a defacto hostige
like when china arrested some canadians citizens in china. after huawei CEO (or whatever she was to the company) was arrested in canada
i didn't explain it very good but i hope you get what i'm saying
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Love the video! However, why was the brezel hung upside down on the wall at 9:08?
Diplomatic immunity is when you organise a large cocaine trafficking operation through an embassy in Argentina and get away with it. Or when you nick expensive bikes from all over town and then try to sell a deputy magistrate his own bike and get away with it
Or when you go to India as an ISI trained spy, extract information about Indian Army and Indian Railways, and simply get a PNG.
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Diplomat causes fatal car accident:
DRC: "Ok You can try him in France"
Russia: "Nah, but we'll try him at home."
Saudi Arabia: "Just take this bribe."
That's more or less how Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries deal with crime, you can buy your way out of punishment if you compensate the victim or their family.
US: She might not legally be covered by diplomatic immunity, but we're not extriditing her anyway
USA: "She comes home no trial no punishment or else" UK: "Yes sir"
In Portugal, the children from the Iraqi Ambassador beaten very harshly a citizen to the point of several week hospitalisation. The whole family refused to drop immunity and they moved back in the end I think
Yeah, they moved back to Iraq.
All this only applies if the diplomat isn't American. For American citizens the US seems to enforce an extremely broad definition of who is immune from prosecution
If you're a US citizen or their family member, and you're associated with the US government, or represent the US abroad in some other way, the US government will go to great lengths to keep you out of trouble. In their opinion, only the US government has jurisdiction over such people, regardless of their actual diplomatic status.
Thank you for the video, keep up the good work! Looking forward to another installment soon.
You missed the most recent incident where an American diplomat killed a Pakistani motorist after running a red signal.
This turned out to be fake news
In fact it was a Pakistani cover-up. This is well known.
Excellent video, it really cleared up misconceptions and questions.
Bro managed to steal countryballs and Sam O'Nella at the same time
Diplomatic bags ares till subjected to Xray machines and can be denied entry if illegal items are seen inside.
The bag can not be opened by airport authorieties and any documents inside are not allowed to be looked at.
3:52 I love the brezzle =D
I mean, diplomats breaking the law can be declared a persona non grata, which is typically done in cases of suspected espookage.
The A555, the first actual Autobahn in Germany, was called "the diplomats' highway", because it goes from Cologne to Bonn, the former German capital…
And rather a smallish town, so diplomats would go on the A555 to go to Cologne, ignoring the speed limits.
as of today the A555 is for the most part without a speed limit. The B9 which leads from the District Bad Godesberg where a lot of big Villas from the Diplomats are located, to the Goverment District, also is called like this.
I legit missed the premiere by 15 seconds, good job me
Murder of Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey is a good example. Saudi diplomats in Turkey murdered him, and Turkish gov. didn't arrest them because of diplomatic immunity and they fled to Saudi Arabia. Turkish gov. was critisized internally afterwards for not taking hard action.
Countries doing this will be responsible for our Diplomatic framework eventually crashing down on itself. Because this is something a country simply cannot ignore. A citizen of a foreign country got murdered by Diplomatic Representatives of another country in the country they work in. Turkey should have cancelled all diplomatic relations to Saudi-Arabia after this. Same goes for Germany with that Cyclist incident btw - unless the former Diplomat voluntarily submitted themselves to a trial.
But this was a time when Saudi-Arabia was even more heavily protected from Washington than usually. I mean they murdered an American Citizen on foreign soil and the White House didn't even react to it. They were totally unphased and did nothing.
Great video, definitely cleared up some misconceptions of mine.
This is not a just thing, but it is a necessary thing.
Why?
This video reminded me of some Qatari prince which had diplomatic immunity in the US and decided to race around Beverly Hills in a Ferrari speeding, blowing stop signs and traffic lights and even hitting an occupied vehicle. He then fled the country and was never arrested.
Great video! Greetings from Serbia.
Really this channel is doing a great job I hope he would upload more often
U know last year in India a UAE diplomats diplomatic bag was checked by asking the UAE consolate in India
So maybe everytime you can not smuggle illegal chocolate eggs🥚
🤣🤣
Kinder eggs is also banned in the US don't know why other countries banned this eggs while there are even more toys that are more choke hazard than the toys inside those eggs.
Yes, the country of origin can lift a diplomatic immunity or part of it as they wish
good video but i feel like it should have covered some more sensative topics like Harry Dunn in the UK was 19 and was killed by US diplomats wife who was driving on the wrong side of the road and fled the UK after hitting him claiming diplomatic immunity and is currently facing no charges despite the UK asking the US to try her in court. whats sensitive here is that it was the diplomats family who asked for immunity and ran away before the crime was reported.
When it came to Julian Assange, they triggered.
And Sacoolas wasn't even covered by diplomatic immunity, but she fled the country before anyone had time to check
Once a diplomat exited from the highway waaaay too late. He almost killed me. This was in Oslo, Norway
While watching this I drove by an embassy
Your videos remind me of Kraut's videos. I prefer your videos for watching short content and Kraut's for a detailed and longer content.
Keep up the good work
This one seems a little less biased though
I was just thinking that it would be a great way to bring kinder eggs into the US, then you made the joke!
They’ve been leagal for the past 4 years now
So about the concept of embassies being the territories of the country being represented; since its still the host country's territory (at least officially), I'd say that the territory on which the embassy stands is leased.
Norway once searched through a diplomatic bag (in breach of the Vienna Convention) because they suspected a bomb was being carried in it. They withheld the bag and requested the diplomat's presence, which was furious that Norway would hinder the diplomatic mail and accuse them of concealing a bomb, or they would open it without him. Lo and behold the bag was opened to protests from the diplomats, which quickly fell silent when there was, in fact, a bomb inside.
They did? When did this happen?
Am from Norway and i have never heard about this before. I try to google it witch if it was true would have given results for sure. I did not find any so am calling this claim bullshit. Please stop sharing misinformation.
state your sources or this is bs
Fake and gay
Great work as always
Regarding diplomatic immunity, can a state (state A) expell another state's diplomat (state B) as a countermeasure for state B's violation of an international obligation towards state A. I know that states usually conduct this act on international plane but I don't think it is lawful since the diplomats are entitled to immunity and inviolability right, which may only be precluded for national security reasons.
Well, according to the international conventions, a state can legally declare a foreign diplomat ‘persona non grata’ without reason. But in practice, there is usually a reason given, in most cases some form of break-down in diplomatic relations or an incident involving the diplomat. Of course, this does’t immediately expel a diplomat, that would be indeed against international law - but it does give the targeted diplomat a short time window leave the country before the diplomatic immunity expires.
Yes, individuals can be PNGed if they (or their family members) commit a serious enough incident, but usually their own embassy will send them packing first. PNGs are often used for getting caught or being suspected of espionage (which is a government function and thus has some coverage under diplomatic assurances); the US and USSR/Russia expel each others' diplomats fairly regularly if they think they're in their intelligence community, but this decision has to be balanced with having their own spies/possible regular staff expelled in retaliation. Same goes for entire diplomatic facilities, as had happened with the consulates in St. Petersburg and San Francisco, as well as Houston and Chéngdū.
An American government employees wife murdered some guy in Britain, ran away and they cant get her now. So pathetic that our government doesnt turn her over.
How did you find out about the German Kinder Surprise operation?
Great video, I really love your content!
I love your videos, thank you for your service.
Great video , keep up the good work
This was a great video! i especially liked, that you included real life historic examples to show how this actually turns out in different situations.
Nice vid, keep it up!
Kinder are now legal, so long as the toy and the chocolate are separate. They are in the store near me, you open the egg (in half) and each half of the plastic egg is sealed separately, chocolate on one side toy on the other.
This defeats the whole purpose.
@@ХузинТимур yea its like saying "we now have free speech in north korea... as long as you remove the part that is critical of the government"
I remember a few years ago here in holland this happened:
Turkey: *send a minister with diplomatic immunuty to their embassy in Amsterdam to convince dual citizens to vote*
Holland: *TELLS POLICE TO GET READY TO OPEN FIRE ON THAT MINISTER*
This is an oversimplification but I've never seen such a stupid political choice in my life.
Fact:
Chiang Kai-shek and Francisco Franco died in the same year.
Two fascists leaving this world together, how sweet.
@@liammarra4003 Wouldn't exactly call Chiang Kai Shek a Fascist,
I guess You could call him a Authoritarian but not that does not make someone automatically a fascist since there is so many different types of Authoritarianism.
@@JesusKnowsAllComeToHim I mean not even franco was really a fascist, he was a falangeist and even then he purged them after ww2.
So did Otto Skorzeny
Can you make a video about the nine dash line and the territorial dispute in the South China Sea? It's a mess
Wait what the grocery store I work at sells Kinder eggs. Is it just that specific type of kinder egg that’s illegal?
There are two kinds of Kinder eggs "supprise" and "joy" only one of them are legal in USA. There are many videos on YT that can explain this better than me
I had a friend in high school who had diplomatic immunity due to his father's Job.
If he forgot his wallet and wanted to get something at the store during our break, he'd just put whatever he wanted into his backpack and zip it shut.
Legally he probably could have been searched, but he relied on the fact that his diplomatic passport would scare off any cop.
Crazy
as a general rule, i don't think it's healthy for a kids mental development to know that they basically above the law, no matter what they do
you know the line "do you know who my father is!!"
kinda like what kids of rich/powerful people often suffer from
not saying the person you are talking about are like that, just a general ting often seen
8:26 What about consulates?
Fun Fact: The only countries the Us does not have an embassy with is Bhutan🇧🇹 Iran🇮🇷 North Korea🇰🇵 and Syria🇸🇾
Da fuck is their problem with mah boi Bhutan 🇧🇹 🇧🇹 🇧🇹
@@mappingshaman5280 Bhutan is picky with who they recognize, for example they do not recognize the US but recognizes Canada, they do not recognize both Chinas probably for neutrality reasons, etc. It's weird but I ain't da government, I'll have to ask if I ever got the money. They do not even recognize the UK ffor some reason (recognition as in diplomatic relationships)
Kinder eggs are still legal in the US. Literally just bought some from the store, and don't know one store that doesn't have them.
In the USA they are Kinder Joy eggs, which are not the same as Kinder Surprise. In a Joy, the toy is not inside something edible.
In Australia, there's a rarely seen licence plate displayed only on the vehicles of diplomats. Anyone know why?
Mate be another form of protection
kinder surprise eggs are actually really common in the us now. idk if they have the surprise inside or not, i've never bought one. but i can hardly go to a grocery store without seeing them nowadays
They made an American version which has the chocolate and toy seperate so they'd be legal in the US
UN diplomats get away with so much with their blue passports.
I grew up in geneva so it wouldnt be uncommon to meet someone who works in the UN or knows a diplomat or whatever;
and I knew this girl who's dad was the diplomat for japan at the time and she told me that once he had to go through security
(i forget where) because he left his blue passport with his wife;
and had gotten so comfortbale just flashing his blue passport and walking by that he forgot that he was carrying a bunch of weed as personal smoke,
and im talking like a few ounces too. So they search his bag obviously and they're in the middle of arresting this guy while he's like:
"No I'm telling you im a UN diplomat" and security is like "yeah, yeah sure just get in the cuffs"
until his wife runs over waving the blue passport like
"what are you doing he's a diplomat!!" ,
and then they uncuff him and let him get on his plane. Crazy.
Your diplomatic immunity? Has just been revoked 🔫😎
That would be a cool line for a movie
Thanks, it's been very interesting.
The kinder surprise egg ban in the USA is really stupid. I understand that “people can choke on the toys inside them blah blah blah,” but personal guns are allowed in the USA. Presumably there’s been a bunch of lawsuits from kinder eggs, but still...
this is proof that the average person is wayy dumber than you think.
Yeah but kinder surprise eggs are not a amendment
you left out the Mongols and their disproportion retribution for disrespecting their envoys
I have Diplomatic Immunity
So Hammer you can't sue
-Peter Griffin
At 0:42 there's a typo: sent*
Lovely video, thanks ^^
That was very interesting, thanks !
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i knew a guy that got attached to a diplomatic mission here in the USA. he would drive his car 120mph (200kph) on the freeway and when pulled over once, didn't even roll the window down. just slapped his id against the window and the cop spun around and went back into his car and left. man, i want to be one so badly. i would be the best diplomat out there, throwing my empty beer bottles out my car window while driving by the Polish ambassador and giving him the finger. and nobody would stop me
Sabah dispute between Malaysia and Philippines next
This is a great video! I want to become a diplomat as I'm studying politics rn
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well done! thanks mate
The small spheres representing people look really cute xd
Omg you talked about the car crash in Nice in 1997. Instant subscribing
Anyone knows the classic music in the background?
Next video please. I enjoy watching your videos and also get knowledge about issues through your videos
8:09, funny little thing with that. Iran back in the '70s and '80s, would not let the DC Fire Department on the property even though they didn't have a choice. So during the embassy siege DCFD companies would just sit outside and wait for the building to go sky high.
it sucks that they made kinder price eggs illegal in the USA
This should be used in schools.
Now I want to be a diplomat after some thinking
Damn those Diplomats need better driving lessons.
ur explanation meant a lot......appreciate ur work mate....
Kinder surprise eggs are definitely legal in the USA, your information from 2012 is outdated. I worked at a big chain grocery store in college and we sold them (Edit: in 2017 they became legal, look it up).
Those are "Kinder Joy Eggs" and are a variant which is legal in the US since 2017, as you say. The original "Kinder Surprise Eggs" however remain banned.
@@PoliticswithPaint It's like me saying without context alcohol sales are illegal in Munich on the theresienwiese during oktoberfest, important information (pandemic) is missing. Great video though Mr. Paint 👍
Why is your video exactly just above 10 minutes?
best way to counter this is to simply say " DONT BOTHER sending another diplomat if we arent allowed to judge this one " lets see waht will be sacrificed relationships that are worth billions or a simple diplomat
Actually the relationships are worth billions because the diplomat has immunity if they didnt the nations wouldnt have diplomat going there
@@lovelyhomeboy2782 you prove my point,the relationships ARE WORTH BILLIONS,so it can be made to work,if they are pressured they WILL bend because its simply NOT WORTH IT to just abandon a nation because a diplomat cant do murder on the streets thats the idea,establish rules,make them KNOWN and UNDERSTOOD,they like it fine welcome to said country they dont,what a shame,i see you on zoom call
Great video