外交官特権の濫用〜国連とNY市との確執〜
Diplomatic Immunity Abuse
From Season 4 episode 9, "Arctic Radar"
3回にわたって、エピソード9のバックグランドの解説をお届けしています。
今週は、外交官特権の濫用に関する話題をお届けしましょう。
まず、首席補佐官レオと大統領の私設秘書チャーリーの会話を見てみましょう。
Leo:
I need a favor. The President's gonna be getting a phone call and I don't want him to take it, and I don't want him to know why.
Charlie:
The first part is okay the second part gets ethically tricky.
Leo:
The U.N. has had a decades-old conflict with New York City. Foreign diplomats will park anywhere they want, and they get tickets.
Charlie:
And?
Leo:
Don't pay them. And that's where the action begins 'cause every once in a while the city goes on a jihad and starts towing all their cars and that's just happened.
There are big signs! You can't park there! They should get towed! I hope they get towed to Queens and the Triboro is closed and there's a big craft show at Shea, a flea market or a tractor show!
I'm not a mayor who is easily threatened, so if they'd like to leave New York over parking tickets, we could find another use for that area of town. It's the most valuable real estate in the world.
Negroponte is known as a guy who is devoted to realpolitik, which is in many ways the opposite of what the UN stands for. Giving him this job is a way of telling the UN: 'We hate you.'
「ネグロポンテは、多くの意味で国連が目指していることの対局を行く現実政治(=武力外交/権力政治)の信者だ。彼に国連大使という地位を与えることは、国連に対してWe hate you.とメッセージを送っている、ということである」
There is no such thing as the United Nations. There is only the international community, which can only be led by the only remaining superpower, which is the United States.