I would have let him rot.
 

http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Musi....ap/index.html


This is one connected musician.


After something like this happens, you begin to realize exactly how powerful a US senator can be.

Four years for possession of 1.26 grams of cocaine, and you would have let him rot? With that quantity, it was obviously for his personal use. It's not like he was dealing or anything. Is four years a reasonable sentence? In our country, you kill a guy in a bar fight and you might get 4 years -- provided you have a hard-ass judge. Four years for simple possession seems a bit harsh to me.

Maybe harsh in the US. He was not in the US. And what business does a US senator have getting involved with someone who has been convicted of such a crime? This guy was arrogant enough to bring hard drugs into an arabic country so I say again, let him rot. But, of course,he didn't rot did he? He skated on the whole thing.

We usually don't agree, but I 100% agree with you in this instance. It seems much too harsh.

I served my mission in Ecuador. Ecuador has extremely stiff penalties when there are injuries resulting from auto accidents. People can be jailed for years. Missionaries who drive mission vehicles are instructed that in the event of an auto accident, they should immediately leave the scene of the accident and return to the mission home, at which time their departure from the country will be expedited. Do you agree with this policy, or should the Church just let missionaries rot in foreign jails?

Just another reason the Church isn't true...

On the contrary. It's a perfectly reasonable policy. There are times when it is proper to look after your own.

That's also the policy of most uninsured drivers. I love driving in DC.

I agree with nonseq. We need to punish and to protect our own. Nobody else will.

That's fascinating. Except that the story wasn't talking about missionaries and neither was I. Remember the story? A rich R&B artist that got bailed out of bringing cocaine into an arab country by a United States Senator(remember Hatch and the whole RIAA thing)?

So a missionary getting into a car wreck = R&B artist attempting to bring cocaine into Dubai? Try again.


I have addressed everything else already.