Indian Official Strip Searched

I am about a week late with this, perhaps longer, but I still find it interesting. An Indian diplomat in NYC was arrested for having committed a series of crimes in regards to her house maid and the government of India lost its shit because the woman, one, was a diplomat and, two, stripped search. They took down barricades outside the US Embassy in Delhi, forbade the watching of any movies or parties on embassy grounds and, in general, threw a hissy fit over the Indian diplomat.

Meanwhile, the maid, an Indian citizen and kept as a virtual slave (the court papers are pretty disturbing - death threats and manipulation, etc.), was hardly mentioned nor considered in the protests. It brings to mind a little noted detail of many countries in South Asia and the Mideast that the treatment of lower class workers is absolutely atrocious and it's starting to seep into America, as well. Saudi Arabia is particularly awful. That country has a reputation of religious crazies, which it does, but a big issue is that a lot of citizens there are nouveau riche from oil wealth and have servants from imported workers, which they treat like dog shit.

Because the Indian official was a diplomat and India threw such a fit, we, basically, cut a deal to allow the two sides to save face. She was indicted in New York, but allowed to return home to India, where she will, likely, be given a new assignment to the UN and get full immunity that she didn't have before now. My opinion? **** her. I don't care if she was treated like a common criminal (which, she wasn't and was treated exceptionally well, plus given a number of benefits normally not given to suspects), I don't think we should be willing to give into accepting inhuman cultural practices of foreign officials in this country. And, **** India, too. This isn't the first time they've pitched a fit over this type of thing.

 

"it's starting to seep into America, as well"

evidence?

 

There have been stories of some of these officials bringing their help in to the country and faking their documents, then keeping them as virtual slaves. I know there was one earlier this year in California.

 

gotcha. I thought you meant evidence that americans were doing this.

 

Not other than the sexual predator types, that I know of.

 

That is how I took it too.

If she didn't have immunity and was your run of the mill diplomat and not on Consulate grounds, I don't see the issue here. But this kind of game is always played between the states. Surprised they do not make her persona non grata , preventing her from being on a UN post.

 

At first I thought the title of this thread was Indy Officially Strip-Searched

 

I would imagine it has much more to do with reciprocity than trying to save face. Pick and choose your battles ... by doing this there is a favor in the bank. Nevermind the fact that this poor servant isn't on the DOJ/State Department radar any more than she is on the Indian Gov'ts radar. Collateral damage unfortunately.

 

Must have misread NYY as the person posting the thread?

 

This isn't part of American culture anymore. Definitely an immigrant/visitor thing when it happens here, but it is happening here now.

 

We are forgetting the important thing here. Was she hot?

 

Dance? Was there a dance? Shiz is then serious.