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realtall · 07-09-2006, 06:49 AM

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.

non sequitur · 07-09-2006, 06:59 AM

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.

realtall · 07-09-2006, 08:06 AM

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Originally Posted by non sequitur

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.

RockyBalboa · 07-10-2006, 12:49 AM

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Originally Posted by non sequitur

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.

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

non sequitur · 07-10-2006, 02:02 AM

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Originally Posted by realtall

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.

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?

Colly Wolly · 07-10-2006, 03:05 AM

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Originally Posted by non sequitur

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...

non sequitur · 07-10-2006, 03:33 AM

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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.

Surfah · 07-10-2006, 03:55 AM

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Originally Posted by non sequitur

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?

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

Archaea · 07-10-2006, 04:35 AM

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

realtall · 07-10-2006, 03:12 PM

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Originally Posted by non sequitur

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?

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.

07-09-2006, 06:49 AM	#1
realtall Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Krum, TX Posts: 891	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. __________________ http://realtall.blogspot.com/

07-09-2006, 06:59 AM	#2
non sequitur Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 1,964	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. __________________ ...You've been under attack for days, there's a soldier down, he's wounded, gangrene's setting in, 'Who's used all the penicillin?' 'Oh, Mark Paxson sir, he's got knob rot off of some tart.'" - Gareth Keenan

07-10-2006, 04:35 AM	#9
Archaea Assistant to the Regional Manager Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: The Orgasmatron Posts: 24,338	I agree with nonseq. We need to punish and to protect our own. Nobody else will. __________________ Ἓν οἶδα ὅτι οὐδὲν οἶδα