shetlandpeat Posted August 11, 2009 Author Report Share Posted August 11, 2009 Netherlands, Thailand, Laos, Netherlands. you missed out Oz.I say this scum bucket knew exactly what she was doing and did it willingly for the free holiday. And your evidence??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJ Posted August 11, 2009 Report Share Posted August 11, 2009 Oz?I know that it was the Ozzies who broke the news she was in gaol in september, but was under the impression she was back on her way to Amsterdam when she was arrested. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostrider Posted August 11, 2009 Report Share Posted August 11, 2009 I have enjoyed the right-wing comments on this story of how she should not have been sent back to Britain - while in the same breath saying that "yun immigrants" need to be deported if they commit a crime. Did Laos deport her? If they did, fair enough, we've got to put up with her. The original news story which eventually spawned this thread stated "in a deal brokered with the Laos Government", which to my mind says we went out there and did what had to be done to take her off their hands, and brings only one reaction to my mind, "WTF for???". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAStewart Posted August 11, 2009 Report Share Posted August 11, 2009 Pressure from the public/human rights groups? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Styles Posted August 11, 2009 Report Share Posted August 11, 2009 Could she not have had the child there and then been shot?If you are in a country you have to abibe by their rules even if you may not agree with them in your country. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claudias Posted August 11, 2009 Report Share Posted August 11, 2009 Isn't it strange;two American spies are arrested in North Korea and everyone automatically assumes that they are innocent. Major diplomatic efforts are tried, including sending a former US president to collect them. Well done all round. No worries about expenses. On the other hand. A coloured girl is arrested in Laos for, allegedly, drug smuggling,threatened with the death sentence,and no attempt is made to contact her for several months. Everyone assumes that she is guilty and some want her to die. Equality? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustMe Posted August 11, 2009 Report Share Posted August 11, 2009 Isn't it strange;two American spies are arrested in North Korea and everyone automatically assumes that they are innocent. Major diplomatic efforts are tried, including sending a former US president to collect them. Well done all round. No worries about expenses. On the other hand. A coloured girl is arrested in Laos for, allegedly, drug smuggling,threatened with the death sentence,and no attempt is made to contact her for several months. Everyone assumes that she is guilty and some want her to die. Equality?Fair comment although I think "alleged spies" might have been a better description. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claudias Posted August 11, 2009 Report Share Posted August 11, 2009 ^ ^ ^ Why? No one is saying "alleged drug smuggler". All are convinced that she is guilty and deserves to die. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostrider Posted August 11, 2009 Report Share Posted August 11, 2009 ^^ The fact that the two chinky yanks were only arrested, tried for, found guilty of, and sentenced for, illegal entry in to Korea, but the black Brit chic was arrested, tried for, found guilty of, and sentenced for being in possession of a not inconsiderable stash of, what is an illegal substance in Laos, might just have something to do with it. Yeah, so what if the yanks were spies. The Koreans didn't have enough to make that rap stick, so if they were, they got away with it. So what if the Brit was a gullible patsy who was out of her depth, she allowed herself to be material to the fact of a charge that the Laotians could make stick. Are we supposed to automatically presume that just because they were yanks they must be guilty of something far greater than the court that tried them in the country where they committed their offence(s) found them guilty of, yet also automatically presume that just because someone is a Brit they cannot possibly be guilty of something as great as what the court that tried them in the country where they committed their offence(s) found them guilty of?!? Jeezzz.....Talk about racist! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustMe Posted August 12, 2009 Report Share Posted August 12, 2009 ^ ^ ^ Why? No one is saying "alleged drug smuggler". All are convinced that she is guilty and deserves to die.Alleged spies because I have no faith in the North Korean legal system when it comes to that country trying to make the US look bad. Drug smuggler because she has been convicted in Laos although I understand the case will get reviewed in the UK so if the original trial was unfair there will be a chance to do something about that. As for "deserves to die" I certainly do not think that because I am against the death penalty. Even if I did support the death penalty I would have doubts about using it on someone so young but as I don't I would be inclined to think that a period of "treatment" to stop her offending again would be far more use to society as a whole than simply sending her to prison. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheepshagger Posted August 12, 2009 Report Share Posted August 12, 2009 Turns out she is not British after all but Nigerian so what the f**k are our government doing getting involved. She is from Nigeria and lived in london for a short while before going of to buy drugs in Laos, her mam bless her soul is in Ireland studying Yet Dublin have not seen fit to get involved maybe the Irish are not as dumb as all the jokes make them out to be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claudias Posted August 12, 2009 Report Share Posted August 12, 2009 ^ ^ ^No belief in N.Korean legal system yet total belief in Laotian legal system. Total belief in American womens innocence yet total belief in Nigerian woman's guilt. Is there maybe a pattern to all this? Are all non WASP's automatically evil? The BNP have some potential recruits up here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claudias Posted August 12, 2009 Report Share Posted August 12, 2009 ^^ The fact that the two chinky yanks Jeezzz.....Talk about racist! Nuff said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulb Posted August 12, 2009 Report Share Posted August 12, 2009 Turns out she is not British after all but Nigerian so what the f**k are our government doing getting involved. She is from Nigeria and lived in london for a short while before going of to buy drugs in Laos, her mam bless her soul is in Ireland studying Yet Dublin have not seen fit to get involved maybe the Irish are not as dumb as all the jokes make them out to be.she is a british citizen just like you. she can and should expect the same protection that her country can give her. her country being the UK. I well remember a name sake of mine being hung in Singapore in the late 80s for the same crime. I don't blame the Laos government or even ours the only one to blame is the girl. it is very simple if you go to a country that executes you for a crime then you had better not do it. lots of countries have the same arrangement for an exchange of prisoners saves the foreign country a fortune in costs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Styles Posted August 12, 2009 Report Share Posted August 12, 2009 I still think if she did the crime and in the country she did it in the law say that is the penalty (no matter how different it may be to our laws) she should have to serve it and we should leave her to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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