Posted on 07/26/2022 10:40:16 AM PDT by Red Badger
Brittney Griner, the WNBA “star” that protested against America in the wake of George Floyd’s death by refusing to appear on the court for the national anthem and saying that she thought the national anthem shouldn’t be played at all, is not fading quietly into the night and just accepting that she’s going to go to prison in Russia for breaking that nation’s laws and smuggling drugs into the country (an act that she admitted to).
Rather, she’s making absurd excuses for her conduct, as if the Russians will let her free if only she comes up with just the right excuse for having smuggled drugs into the Russian Federation.
First, her legal team argued that she had inadvertently put the hash oil vape cartridges in her luggage and had not meant to smuggle them into Russia. That didn’t work to well, as the law is that no smuggling is allowed, not that you’ll be let off the hook by claiming that you didn’t mean to bring drugs into the nation…otherwise every drug dealer/smuggler would just say that they hadn’t meant to bring the drugs into the nation.
Next, the legal team claimed that Griner only had the drugs because she has a medical marijuana prescription and needed the drug for “chronic pain.” Once again, the Russians didn’t care, as her lawyers should have expected from the start: Russia doesn’t allow any marijuana, “medical” or not. So having a card giving you permission to smoke weed isn’t an excuse for doing so over there.
And that’s a longstanding policy of Russia, as it sees weed as being deleterious and has the guts necessary to stand up to stoners that claim they need it as a “medicine”. As Andrey Khrapov, the head of the anti-drug department in Russia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs, put it:
“If a person continues to use marijuana for a long time, then, as a rule, this causes certain changes in the psychological properties. The opinion of our doctors, law enforcement agencies is against it. There is no benefit in this, no medical effect, except for worsening the situation.”
“Let’s say countries like Holland, Uruguay, Mexico, where they legalized marijuana, as a result, human rights activists, sane people in these countries come to the conclusion that this was actually a wrong, unnecessary decision. Believe me, for every type of disease, where you can would be to use marijuana for a medicinal effect, there are many pharmaceutical analogues that are better and safer,”
So the whole “medical marijuana” excuse didn’t work, as Russia thinks it’s ridiculous, like many conservatives in America do.
Regardless, it’s the line her lawyers keep pushing, with Fox News reporting that lawyer Maria Blagovolina said “With the prescription in place, Brittney may have used it for medical but not recreational purposes.”
The Russians have remained unimpressed and unwilling to treat that claim as a meaningful excuse. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, for example, said:
“If a U.S. citizen was taken in connection with the fact that she was smuggling drugs, and she does not deny this, then this should be commensurate with our Russian local laws and not with those adopted in San Francisco, New York and Washington.
“You understand, if drugs are legalized in the United States — in a number of states — and this is done for a long time, and now the whole country will become drug addicted. This does not mean that all other countries are following the same path.”
He has an adam’s apple, too. It’s quite prominent.
Yes they are using this as leverage.
Well, you can’t claim vodka has no medicinal effects, because it is at least a decent antiseptic.
Fake conservatives.
Obama/Biden gave the Taliban 4 generals in trade for a guy who deserted his post and should’ve faced a firing squad.
The Russians are expecting Biden/Harris can do worse than that.
At the beginning she should have confessed and beg the court’s mercy; but no, thinking that a liberal court and judge in the US would have said “well, okay” bye. I hope the Russians ask her what size woollies she would need when shipped out to Siberia for ten or twenty years.
Isn’t it still illegal at our federal level?
On the federal firearms forms you have to state that you don’t use marijuana or other drugs. Even if it is legal in one’s state, you can’t use it and legally buy a firearm. (So yes, pot is illegal at our federal level).
“Good grief, you’re right! I’d never seen “Brittney” Griner before, but that’s almost surely a man!”
Someone posted some pictures on Twitter that claimed to be “her” playing basketball shirtless. If they weren’t “her” there was a remarkable resemblance, and if they were “her” she’s a man, baby. In the video you posted the only feminine thing I saw was the make up. The mannerisms and voice were totally male.
*** Trump would have had her out in a day. No problem ***
He sure as hell didn’t lift a finger to free Julian Assange. Played right along with the persecution and torture.
Indeed Russia thinks it’s ridiculous.
I don’t usually recommend posting nude pictures on the internet, but the Russians would do the world a favor if they would post some shower room pictures of Britteny ,you know, like Hunter Biden has been doing.. It would answer a lot of questions and be very hard to deny...
Yea. That may be. I’m unfamiliar with Julian Assange, and his situation.
I’d say you’re on to something. If it is biologically a dude, it will be treated like a dude. Russia will go full honey-badger on pervs.
Semenya is an intersex woman, with 5α-Reductase 2 deficiency, assigned female at birth, with XY chromosomes and naturally elevated testosterone levels, according to Wiki
I suspect that Griner is also intersex. A cruel trick of nature to gift with athletic prowess a person who is an unfair competitor. I favor a mixed class for such athletes where they could compete w/o unfairness to women athletes.
They can keep her.
Interesting article: https://www.letsrun.com/news/2019/05/what-no-one-is-telling-you-about-caster-semenya-she-has-xy-chromosomes/
Excerpt: The crazy thing about the Semenya case is that even though intersex births like Semenya’s are extremely rare it’s believed that all three of the medallists in the 2016 Olympic women’s 800 – Caster Semenya, Francine Niyonsaba and Margaret Wambui — are intersex. Yes, all three. If that doesn’t make you understand from a simple odds perspective that there needs to be a limit on testosterone in women’s sports, then I don’t know what will. Of course, common sense also tells us that most human beings that have XY chromosomes gain a huge advantage in sports once they hit puberty, mainly due to increased testosterone levels.
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