Diplomatic Immunity and the Cost

 Hello all,

  So I am watching this movie 'Lethal Weapon 2'.  In the movie, in which the diplomats from South Africa ( Dutch Apartheid Supporters ) are laundering the gold Krugerrand and killing people. That's a bit of a stretch for any diplomat to do, much less get away with when confronted by police. At issue, as I read it, is the hundreds of thousands dollars and in some states more in unpaid parking tickets.

Here is the wiki-link defining and explaining "Diplomatic Immunity".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomatic_immunity


 Diplomats in Washington D.C. owe quite a bit.

http://www.wtop.com/41/2555713/Diplomats-in-DC-owe-hundreds-of-thousands-in-parking-tickets


 Diplomats in New York City owe a lot more.

http://www.ibtimes.com/diplomatic-immunity-cost-new-york-city-172-million-unpaid-parking-tickets-317186


   The actual verbiage of the Vienna document does not specifically mention 'parking tickets'.

  Additionally, while foreign diplomats cannot be held or charged, they can be expelled.

 I propose that our Government and individual States, send bills to the countries whose diplomats have insane amounts of unpaid tickets, and guarantee to expel those countries' "diplomats" until said fees are paid.  We do not need foreign diplomats here breaking the law because they feel they can...and get away with it.

  Have a great weekend!

Trevor Dodge