a possible 10 year sentence for 2 vape cartridges

I would hope you all could be a little more sympathetic to the situation

also, the exchange discussion for Mr. Death or whatever he is called includes both Griner and an american former marine who now works in international security and was "only in russia to attend a friends wedding". I think we can all read between the lines on why he might be the lesser known but more important component

Hate to tell ya this "Amigo", but that is sort of the essence of how life works.

They knew she had them in her bag. I'm sure she's always had them in her bag, but they looked the other way.

Hate to tell ya this "Amigo", but that is sort of the essence of how life works.

Hate to tell ya this "Amigo", but that is sort of the essence of how life works.

i like that it is forcing some mental gymnastics
its only weed !
that we imprisoned people for for years...
but let her off !

watch To Catch a Smuggler on NGC

they don't fuck around overseas

those always seem like patsies, intended to be caught, either to distract from the real smugglers moving through unmolested and/or to allow the local gendarmes to meet a quota/get a high profile foreigner bust for media purposes.

a possible 10 year sentence for 2 vape cartridges

It's more fun to be a victim

There will never be an effective vaccine. I'll never get one anyway.

probably, but the sentences like Griners seem real
Like a 1 year thing here for weed is 10 years there

In some countries even less than that can get you executed.

In the US, that punishment seems insane sure. But she wasn't in the US. As the great Sidney Deane once said, "It's their court. It's their rules."

It's more fun to be a victim

There will never be an effective vaccine. I'll never get one anyway.

those always seem like patsies, intended to be caught, either to distract from the real smugglers moving through unmolested and/or to allow the local gendarmes to meet a quota/get a high profile foreigner bust for media purposes.

Yeah, I imagine they'll go high on Griner, if they gave her a nominal ( a year or whatever) sentence Russia wouldn't have much to negotiate for her release. Foreigners who get busted in other countries getting stiff sentences seems to be similar to why the SEC sent Martha Stewart away for something most people would get a fine and probation for or the IRS going after Wesley Snipes--they want the high profile scalp to nail to the wall to discourage others from doing the same thing.

isn't weed still illegal at the federal level in the United States? Griner must've gone through boarding procedures at a U.S. airport with her cache of weed vape cartridges. Possible the boarding TSA agents didn't screen the carts closely. Not sure how it works if you're departing from an airport in a state that has legalized weed. I assume TSA could still bust you but they probably let it through or at worst let you throw it away.

Singapore, and I think that is still a thing.
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Michael Fay, that kid was a fucker, needed caning. Although the account of the caning process made it sound brutal. It wasn't six quick whacks. It was some sort of Shohei Ohtani type coming up to bat on your ass; and then they'd wait in between strokes for maximum effect. I think he passed out a couple times during the process. They'd revive him and make sure he was fully conscious before delivering the next stroke. But, still, little fucker deserved the caning.

and the situation created one of the landmark segments during the golden age of the Score

Michael Fay, that kid was a fucker, needed caning. Although the account of the caning process made it sound brutal. It wasn't six quick whacks. It was some sort of Shohei Ohtani type coming up to bat on your ass; and then they'd wait in between strokes for maximum effect. I think he passed out a couple times during the process. They'd revive him and make sure he was fully conscious before delivering the next stroke. But, still, little fucker deserved the caning.

Describing the caning day, Fay told Reuters he did not know the time had come for punishment when he was taken from his cell. He said he was bent over a trestle so his buttocks stuck out, with his hands and feet buckled to the structure. He was naked except for a protective rubber pad fixed to his back. The flogger, a doctor, and prison officials were also present.

Fay told Reuters the caner walked sharply forward three steps to build power. "They go 'Count one'—you hear them yell it really loud—and a few seconds later they come, I guess I would call it charging at you with a rattan cane." He noted that a prison officer guided him through the ordeal saying: "OK Michael, three left; OK Michael, two left; OK one more, you're almost done." Fay reported that when the fourth stroke was delivered he was immediately unbuckled from the trestle and taken to a cell to recover. The caning, which Fay estimated took one minute, left a "few streaks of blood" running down his buttocks, and seven weeks later, left three dark-brown scar patches on his right buttock and four lines each about half-an-inch wide on his left buttock. He said that the wounds hurt for about five days after which they itched as they healed. "The first couple of days it was very hard to sit," Fay reported, but he said he was able to walk after the caning

I have MANY years of experience in trying to appreciate steaming piles of dogshit.

your last sentence is all I'm saying. Bring our people back. Hell, Reese Witherspoon would produce some heroic movie about the struggle if it was some young woman in prison because of drugs in southeast asia

and I say this knowing full well that she is going to mf the usa in front of cameras the moment she touches down on our soil

It's also apparent that her arrogance led to her arrest. Her celebrity is helping her overcome it.

Hate to tell ya this "Amigo", but that is sort of the essence of how life works.

she's in jail because of politics.

It's more fun to be a victim

There will never be an effective vaccine. I'll never get one anyway.

It can be politics and she can still be reaping what she sewed.

Probably.

But if she had drugs on her, flaunted having drugs on her, left Russia before the war, and then returned after the State Dept said don't go to Russia, doesn't she bear at least some responsibility? It can be politics and she can still be reaping what she sewed.