WNBA star Brittney Griner opens up about harrowing Russian detention in exclusive '20/20' special
WNBA star Brittney Griner opens up about harrowing Russian detention in exclusive '20/20' special
It annoys me that something as stupid as a marijuana vape gave Russia an excuse to secure the release of Viktor Bout without giving us Paul Whelan in return.
Frankly, Griner should've been the one to bear the costs of her fuck-up, not Whelan.
Nah whelan can stay. Dude was and is a piece of shit.
I was unaware of that, but fair enough.
Still, surely there was some higher-value political prisoner they could've asked for as a fairer exchange for someone as notorious as the "Merchant of Death." I mean, sure, it's nice that we're helping out random basketball players and other such normal citizens, but unless Griner is an undercover CIA operative or something it doesn't seem worth the trade.
Yeah for real, the whole situation is just a cluster fuck of idiocy.
Irrelevant thought: They should be sitting in higher chairs. They’re both tall. It just looks weird to me.
Thanks for posting this. I didn't realize she had a book coming until I read the article.
I look forward to seeing this.
Are there no Americans left with rational thought?
If you go to a different country, and break a law, you're responsible. You can't just say oops. She brought drugs across an international border. She is 100% at fault.
Now what if she was a Dutch national traveling to the USA and did the exact same thing. A small amount of marijuana. Microscopic amount. Flying into a legal state even, say Colorado as Port of Entry. She'd GO TO FEDERAL PRISON. It's a federal crime, the carry a Class 1 scheduled narcotic into the USA. She could be sitting in the US prisons for 25 years.
And the US does this to people all the time. Sometimes if you're the proper shade of immigrant, they'll chastise you and let you go. Or chastise you, cancel your visa, ban you from the country for 5 or 10 years (or forever) and fly you back to your home country. But often, you are arrested and charged.
1: No she wouldn't. Federal law enforcement doesn't pursue weed charges anymore. Thus Biden making a big deal out of pardoning all weed charges and everyone pointing out that there is literally no one in federal prison for weed.
2: They found an empty cartridge in her luggage. That was the law she "admitted to breaking."
You completely misunderstand bringing control substances, even residue, across a federal border. The US CBP absolutely does charge and prosecute for marijuana. CBP is like the TSA of border crossings, part of Homeland Security. They do not F around with drugs, even marijuana. Heck they'll throw grandma in jail for not having her prescriptions in the proper containers.
Shut up lib