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BRITTNEY GRINER SENTENCED TO 9 YEARS IN PRISON AFTER BEING FOUND GUILTY ON DRUG CHARGES IN RUSSIA
Outkickj ^ | 4 Aug 2022 | Mark Harris

Posted on 08/04/2022 2:57:02 PM PDT by Rummyfan

Brittney Griner was found guilty of drug charges in a Russian court on Thursday. Shortly after being found guilty, she was sentenced to nine years in Russian prison. The prosecution was reportedly seeking nine and a half years.

Griner is being used as a political pawn. Now, with the sentencing, it forces the hand of President Joe Biden to do something sooner rather than later and get the American citizen out of Russian prison.

The American justice system is far from perfect, but this outrageous sentencing should put things into perspective for everyone, including LeBron James, about how unjust other justice systems around the world operate.

America is attempting to trade the Merchant of Death Viktor Bout for the American basketball star, but it’s unclear if that’s going to happen or not.

Immediately after the sentencing, Biden released a statement saying “Russia is wrongfully detaining” Griner.

(Excerpt) Read more at outkick.com ...


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To: Rummyfan
but this outrageous sentencing should put things into perspective for everyone,

What's “outrageous” about it?
Try smuggling illegal drugs to Singapore and you get executed. They should be thanking Russia for their magnanimity.

61 posted on 08/04/2022 3:29:19 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: Rummyfan

Biden will trade for him. Just watch.


62 posted on 08/04/2022 3:30:21 PM PDT by Luke21
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To: Rummyfan

WE KNOW THIS HAPPENED HOURS AGO WHY ARE WE YELLING ABOUT IT?


63 posted on 08/04/2022 3:31:08 PM PDT by Silver78
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To: twister881; Rummyfan

When I went overseas in the Seventies while in the USN, they were very diligent about educating us regarding drug use while a visitor in foreign countries.

As everyone knows, drug use was relatively commonplace back then in the USA. But they told us that even if punishment was lax in the USA, not to expect any laxity in foreign countries when there as a guest.

They warned us that we would see foreign nationals in their countries using drugs freely, but if we assumed it was okay and we were caught, we, as Americans, would be treated quite differently than the locals who wouldn’t be punished at all.

On our first deployment to the Med, they told us of an American sailor busted for possession of marijuana on a previous deployment, and was still there.

When I went on our next deployment the following year, they told us the story again and said he was STILL there with no release in sight.


64 posted on 08/04/2022 3:33:25 PM PDT by rlmorel (Nolnah's Razor: Never attribute to incompetence that which is adequately explained by malice.)
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To: Rummyfan

Looks like Russia doesn’t accept the Race Card.


65 posted on 08/04/2022 3:33:44 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: Rummyfan

Look at the bright side, Brittany. You won’t have to listen to the Star Spangled Banner anymore!


66 posted on 08/04/2022 3:34:35 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: Rummyfan

It’s crazy excessive and she’s being used politically

Which is to be expected

What will it cost us is the question


67 posted on 08/04/2022 3:35:02 PM PDT by wardaddy (Lawyers guns and money……I lived it…. Now I'm old…. I have wonderful children)
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To: colorado tanker

Heh heh, how do you know the Russians won’t play it?


68 posted on 08/04/2022 3:35:16 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Rummyfan

Wait till she finds out about the additional 10 years
of internal exile.

Kolyma, Kolyma.
Amazing Planet.
12 months of winter.
the rest is summer.


69 posted on 08/04/2022 3:35:27 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Clay Moore

The prisons aren’t much different

But Russian hacks have much more leeway in cruelty

At least seems that way on documentaries

I guess they still have gulag type stuff for political enemies


70 posted on 08/04/2022 3:37:12 PM PDT by wardaddy (Lawyers guns and money……I lived it…. Now I'm old…. I have wonderful children)
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To: Clay Moore

Google the Black Dolphin. Not a nice place at all. Not that she’s likely to be sent there.


71 posted on 08/04/2022 3:37:13 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: tet68

Hint to Britany...when in transit, DON’T eat the herring.

Maybe I could send her a copy of “Alexander Dolgun’s story”.


72 posted on 08/04/2022 3:37:52 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Rummyfan

Excerpt:

“After being imprisoned in the far north of Russian Siberian wasteland, Polish soldier Slawomir Rawicz and six of his friends managed to escape from the gulag and go on incredible journey in which they walked over 4000 miles southward until they reached safety in India.”

http://www.prisonhistory.net/prison-escapes/siberia-escape-the-long-walk/


73 posted on 08/04/2022 3:39:39 PM PDT by jacknhoo ( Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: Rummyfan

We have real Americans being held in the DC Gulag that are more deserving of all possible efforts to restore their Freedom.

Russia can keep Griner.


74 posted on 08/04/2022 3:42:09 PM PDT by Howie66 (Let's Go Brandon!!)
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To: Rummyfan

What a stupid mutt to think she could bring drugs to Russia.


75 posted on 08/04/2022 3:43:18 PM PDT by Bullish (Rot'sa Ruck America. )
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To: Lazamataz

I would think that “in court” would be a hard place for trans-whatever to be.
You’re supposed to TELL THE TRUTH, AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH in court.
So he would have to have the balls to admit that he has balls!
And I’m not talking about BASKET balls either!


76 posted on 08/04/2022 3:43:43 PM PDT by djf
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To: Rummyfan

I hear they are still working on a trade.....wish it wasn’t so.


77 posted on 08/04/2022 3:44:40 PM PDT by Whatever Works
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To: frank ballenger

just think if dizzzy lesbo Griner did this in North Korea!

(An American university student held prisoner in North Korea for 17 months died at a Cincinnati hospital on Monday, just days after he was released from captivity in a coma, his family said.) dummy went as a tourist!

this dufus took a poster— or something- the Norks beat him
into a coma— what lovely communist countries-

of course being a outed lesbian she CANNOT even get into a lot of countries.


78 posted on 08/04/2022 3:45:42 PM PDT by mj1234
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To: Rummyfan

Free ALL Jan 6 prisoners!!!!

Otherwise, the US elites have NO right to complain about what is happening to Brittney Griner!!!!


79 posted on 08/04/2022 3:47:06 PM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: Whatever Works

What are they doing for the nearly 10,000 AMERICANS abandoned in Afghanistan?


80 posted on 08/04/2022 3:47:32 PM PDT by wrench
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