Final result: FIFA 14, the US Justice System nil

The rest of the world, other than the isolated US, understands that FIFA are crooks.   It's a running joke--even when lives are at stake.

So now the U.S. enacts the questionable set of racketeering laws it uses whenever it feels like stripping non-U.S. citizens living outside of the country of their civil and legal rights.

The result:  FIFA leaders are in some jail in the US, apparently in Brooklyn where there's a reasonable smattering of soccer, but none at the professional level.  My guess is that the rest of the world is now rooting for FIFA over our justice system.   FIFA 14, US nil.

Good news--the 14 are (probably) not in Guantanamo.

Bad news, three of the four top execs in jail are--surprise--black (the fourth is Ecuadorian).  We love to jail black people here. These FIFA extraditions take the eyes of the Justice Department off the battle on police behavior including the new very-fragile Cleveland police ruling.

I'm appalled.  Here's why:

• It is not the job of the United States to regulate football, a sport for which it has almost no international standing (despite our slow rise into the top 20 rankings).   
• I'm not a lawyer but can any one point out a way that damages to US citizens or interests are at the very very low end of the crimes committed by the FIFA gangsters?   To put that in estimated terms, the US is subject to 1% of the damages.   Why are we taking jurisdictional responsibility for 100% of the criminal activity?   Shouldn't these folks be in detention in the Hague where real justice and reparation is possible?
• If we're serious about stopping graft in international football (which we are--we want the revenues and Obama knows first-hand that we can't get them since he groveled before FIFA once and couldn't even get the US short-listed) we should release the evidence we have to the World Court.   Instead, all of the criminal activities are now forever hidden behind US lawyer/client privilege.   These arrests are a setback for disclosing racketeering within FIFA, and the worst possible strategy.

And here's why I'm happy:   The United States regularly commits international law injustices against foreign nationals.   We know about most of this in the public federal court systems, and we guess at the violence and illegality of similar procedures in our network of "secret" courts for "terrorists."   (Which system is bigger, I wonder?).   Now it's once again front page news--the US does not observe the Geneva Convention, it is not a signatory to any international law covenants, and it feels entitled to  extradite foreign nationals at will.   

In this case of Sepp Blatter's gang, the Swiss police apparently cooperated.   For the US, not just sending secret police and mugging people in their homes is progress, I'm forced to admit.  All hail America.