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U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner has been sent to a Russian penal colony
Texas Standard News ^ | November 9, 2022 | By Charles Maynes, NPR

Posted on 11/09/2022 9:48:58 AM PST by Navy Patriot

MOSCOW — Jailed American basketball star Brittney Griner has been moved from a detention center outside of Moscow and is being sent to a Russian penal colony to begin serving out her nine-year sentence on drug smuggling charges, her lawyers said Wednesday.

A statement released by Griner’s legal team says they do not have information on Griner’s “exact current location or her final destination.”

The statement also said that in accordance with “standard Russian procedure,” they anticipate Russian authorities will notify Griner’s legal team and the U.S. embassy of Griner’s whereabouts upon arrival at her destination.

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To: Navy Patriot

That’s a shame


41 posted on 11/09/2022 11:43:01 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (At this point I would rather have the illegals here than the liberals.)
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To: Navy Patriot

was HE sent to a male penal colony?
Russwia doesn’t play into the woke mental illnesses


42 posted on 11/09/2022 12:11:08 PM PST by Conservative4Life (thy merchants were great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived. Rev18:23)
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To: Navy Patriot

P=$$y pass. REVOKED
Black pass... REVOKED
Lesbian pass... REVOKED.

I bet she wishes their was some white guilt LGBTQWTF feminism over there...


43 posted on 11/09/2022 12:14:20 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: Navy Patriot

Trump would have made a deal with Vlad and flown her home on Air Trump.

Oh well. One hears that the food is great.


44 posted on 11/09/2022 12:23:32 PM PST by OKSooner ("Oh, the mad fools!")
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To: No name given

PATRIOT REHABILITATION CENTER


45 posted on 11/09/2022 12:41:36 PM PST by kempster (w President of all time.)
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To: Navy Patriot
Maybe she'll run into these two guys:


46 posted on 11/09/2022 12:45:06 PM PST by Kenny Bania (Ovaltine? Why not call it Roundtine?)
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To: volunbeer

Interesting. The Frankfurt School members in the US appeared to be clinically depressed individuals. They would ware heavy wool suits and overcoats in southern California in the middle of the summer. They were constantly visibly unhappy men who intensely disliked the country that offered them refuge and endlessly complained how that the US was not Germany. Many German refugees in California behaved in the opposite. Walter Klempener (whose son is remembered as Col Klink of Hogan’s Heroes fame) the symphony conductor made it very clear he had absolutely no interest in returning to Germany, a country that wanted to kill him, from spring like California where he made far more money directing motion picture symphonies or scoring film music than he could imagine directing an orchestra in Europe.


47 posted on 11/09/2022 1:13:15 PM PST by robowombat
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To: robowombat

They were marxists who wished for Germany to be a socialist paradise. They got the Nazi’s instead so some of them came here and continued beating the drum.


48 posted on 11/09/2022 1:48:27 PM PST by volunbeer (Find the truth and accept it - anything else is delusional)
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To: volunbeer

I almost weep at what teachers’ union indoctrination of our youth has done.

In the 1750’s Charles De Montesquieu wrote that the first purpose of education in a republic is to imbue love of country. So true then as it is now.


49 posted on 11/09/2022 2:39:44 PM PST by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: Jacquerie

The left has perfected the art of taking over institutions and using them for their agenda.

It is very effective and their reach is now almost absolute within our nation given the corruption of corporate America who are now “political” when in the past it was all about business. They don’t just indoctrinate their minions.... they launch them throughout society into every corner to proselytize.

This has been accelerated by the woke majors and degrees from institutions of higher learning. These degrees now now make up the highest percentage of hires within corporate HQ throughout America.

This is why the CEO of Coca-Cola wakes up to a company tweet that pisses off half their customer base and this story happens over and over and over. The CEO’s are afraid of the woke know-nothings they have hired in their HR departments.

If this were a cancer our national prognosis would be very bad.......


50 posted on 11/09/2022 2:56:02 PM PST by volunbeer (Find the truth and accept it - anything else is delusional)
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To: volunbeer

Yes. Democrats soil institutions. Every time.


51 posted on 11/09/2022 3:23:44 PM PST by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: Navy Patriot

Mens section?


52 posted on 11/09/2022 6:45:02 PM PST by Craftmore
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To: Palio di Siena

BINGO!


53 posted on 11/17/2022 11:33:49 PM PST by AbolishCSEU (Amount of "child" support paid is inversely proportionate to mother's actual parenting of children)
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To: Navy Patriot

I heard Candace Owens is feeling sorry for “her.”
Bad move. Griner was probably being uncooperative and entitled so they took further action.


54 posted on 11/17/2022 11:37:56 PM PST by AbolishCSEU (Amount of "child" support paid is inversely proportionate to mother's actual parenting of children)
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To: AbolishCSEU
Briefly, from the information I have, Griner displayed a bad attitude at the time of the discovery of Hash oil in Griner's luggage, and for about a day and a half afterward.

Apparently, Griner was provided a Russian lawyer for advise/representation.

After this, Griner admitted guilt and apologized for the infraction and attitude. At that point Griner was scheduled to serve less than six months in jail (not prison), pay a fine and be deported from Russia.

THEN the US State Department and Biden got involved and shot their big mouths off, and insisted on Mainstream Media Front Page Diplomacy, rather than the standard private conversations between diplomats.

So Griner, and Griner's supporters, can thank Biden and State for eight years hard labor, and no swaps.

55 posted on 11/18/2022 7:02:47 AM PST by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: Navy Patriot
I'm not suprized by that considering the way Brandon's administration was commenting about the russian justice system:

"U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken released a statement Wednesday reiterating that the nation is working to secure Griner’s release and calling the move to a penal colony another “injustice” committed against Griner by the Russian state. “Following a sham trial and the unjust sentencing of Brittney Griner, Moscow is transferring her from a prison in Moscow to a remote penal colony,” Blinken said. “It is another injustice layered on her ongoing unjust and wrongful detention......
56 posted on 11/18/2022 7:08:44 AM PST by jaydubya2
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To: jaydubya2
I suspect that as soon as Biden Blinken and State knock off the Propaganda public announcements, life will get easier for Griner.

Had they not started out with that crap, Griner would be in America now, working to rehabilitate the Bad Attitude.

57 posted on 11/18/2022 7:24:01 AM PST by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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