OT Brittney Griner Sentenced for 9 years

[payton2kemp]

People have gotten less for murder in america.

People have also gotten more for Weed in the United States.

Before a deal is made for Griner, these 40k people also need to be released and it needs to be removed from the schedule 1 drug list.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/joanoleck/2020/06/26/with-40000-americans-incarcerated-for-marijuana-offenses-the-cannabis-industry-needs-to-step-up-activists-said-this-week/?sh=4a3ee4d0c16f

[Salieri]

People are just mean BUT she has not endeared herself with opinions that she hates America so... Should she be sent home and tried here? yes is perfect world that would happen. That's not how the world works though.

Britney Griner has not said she hates America. This is twisted garbage from right wing media. And even if she does, that has nothing to do with her being detained by a corrupt dictatorship. You cannot pretend to be a free speech absolutist only in cases you agree with.

https://www.yahoo.com/video/wnb-as-brittney-griner-national-anthem-has-no-place-in-wnba-sports-222810318.html
Then she retracts her own statement says its not disrespect the military but at that point people made up their minds about her.

Believing the anthem has no place in a sports event is NOT about hating America. It's about having common sense

[CraftylikeaFox]

Amyone seen that show locked up abroad?

To this day I still think about the Black Dolphin prison. I've never seen a more broken group of people, even if most of them deserved it.

[Mac_]

[lakerz12]

Watch on YouTube

[taikibansei]

or you could not commit a crime

what a concept, right

Again, this is Russia--there's a good chance that the evidence was planted, or that no marijuana was found. (I.e., they just made it up.) Confessions mean nothing there--e.g., she was probably lied to that she'd get leniency if she signed off on it, and believed this lie. Again, a very naive person.

We likely won't know the truth unless and until Griner is released--and they likely won't release her even after her nine-year sentence is finished. Why would they?

She has never denied it was hers.

Which means ****. She's in a Russian prison, unable to communicate with those around her, likely locked in isolation much of the day, with limited (once in the first two months) access to the Embassy and likely almost no other access to the outside world (e.g., the correspondence with her wife is either forged or heavily censored).

Griner's likely terrified and/or in shock. As you would be--indeed, as would just about everyone talking tough now on this board. I can see most of you "confessing" to various "crimes" within hours. Doesn't make the charges true.

[The Rebel]

People have gotten less for murder in america.

People have also gotten more for Weed in the United States.

what about murder weed?

What is murder weed?

People have gotten more time for Weed, they have gotten more time for murdering over weed, they have gotten less time for murdering people, but ultimately the poor and minorities in the United States have spend countless years in jail for weed. We have no room to judge foreign countries when it comes to their drug laws.

[Wall_To_Clips]

Again, this is Russia--there's a good chance that the evidence was planted, or that no marijuana was found. (I.e., they just made it up.) Confessions mean nothing there--e.g., she was probably lied to that she'd get leniency if she signed off on it, and believed this lie. Again, a very naive person.

We likely won't know the truth unless and until Griner is released--and they likely won't release her even after her nine-year sentence is finished. Why would they?

She has never denied it was hers.

Which means ****. She's in a Russian prison, unable to communicate with those around her, likely locked in isolation much of the day, with limited (once in the first two months) access to the Embassy and likely almost no other access to the outside world (e.g., the correspondence with her wife is either forged or heavily censored).

Griner's likely terrified and/or in shock. As you would be--indeed, as would just about everyone talking tough now on this board. I can see most of you "confessing" to various "crimes" within hours. Doesn't make the charges true.

American celebs are used to no punishment. The laws don’t apply to them. I would call it more of a reality check perhaps.

[Goomba3666]

Any former nba guy playing in China right now should take notice: this could be you if war breaks out over Taiwan. If it isn’t weed, they’ll find another excuse.

Best response in the thread. This could happen at the drop of a hat in China due to the recent Taiwan situation.

And in situations like that, it's hardly the players' fault. Like you said, doesn't have to be an "illegal substance". In China, it could be visiting the wrong websites, or voicing the wrong opinion.

[Bolts]

I care about Americans wrongly imprisoned in other countries.

I don't care about people who hate America, no matter where they are from. I also don't care about people who break another country's laws while visiting there. In this case it appears I have good reason to double not care,

BTW how long did it take to free the UCLA basketball idiots who were stealing from stores in China?

[taikibansei]

She has never denied it was hers.

Which means ****. She's in a Russian prison, unable to communicate with those around her, likely locked in isolation much of the day, with limited (once in the first two months) access to the Embassy and likely almost no other access to the outside world (e.g., the correspondence with her wife is either forged or heavily censored).

Griner's likely terrified and/or in shock. As you would be--indeed, as would just about everyone talking tough now on this board. I can see most of you "confessing" to various "crimes" within hours. Doesn't make the charges true.

American celebs are used to no punishment. The laws don’t apply to them. I would call it more of a reality check perhaps.

Comrade, keep posting or Putin might put you in an adjoining cell....

[Ruma85]

Russia's culture is similiar to my home country serbia, if you break the law you pay for the crime it's simple, does her getting 9 years alot for how much she was carrying? Yes but she should know the law, It's obvious russia does not have a good relationship with the usa and it's a political stunt. At the end of the day she only has herself to blame.

[BlazersBroncos]

Who the hell cares if she said she hates America, an unjust sentence is unjust regardless of a stupid statement from the imprisoned.

This is **** insane, but Russia is a fascist hellhole and this is a political sentence so I am not too surprised. I hope this can bring more light to the Russian regime and their terrorist activity in Ukraine. Only silver lining.

[kenwood3333]

When you are at a foreign country, you play within that country's rule, being an American does not make you invincible and entitled to special treatment. The legality of weed should be determined by each country, not because the Americans think it should. If weed should be legal, then should women not be forced to ear a hijabi too?

[The Rebel]

Bit ironic - trashes the USA for how unfair their legal system/etc is and then goes to a fullblown archaic near-totalitarian nation and is arrested for something that is mostly legal in the USA. (if you reply with the usual "but the usa is bad too!" then you don't understand what irony is)

Perhaps the USA ain't so bad relative to other countries?

80% chance she's swapped with another Russian and is back home soon.

Many people wildly taking this country for granted.

It's because they are ungrateful. They have no idea what real oppression looks like.

A lot of US citizens have no idea how things work in the rest of the world, and the world today is considerably better than it was 100 years ago. I hope that the ungrateful and idiots that have no real understanding of history do not lead us to another era where the entire world ends up oppressed but fear they will.

[Ballerhogger]

Lol then google history of the US and its crimes both on its soil and overseas all over the world. Russia is not even close to that level of atrocity.

imagine defending Russia...

Get off of your high horse, you're from America, a country that was involved in God knows how many wars and none of them were led on its land.

Did I say America was perfect? no. That's nothing to do with what I originally said.. I said it this does not even scratch the surface of the war crimes Russia has done. If you really think it does. Go back google Russia war crimes.

[pontius]

The replies in this thread are **** hilarious.

[Ballerhogger]

I care about Americans wrongly imprisoned in other countries.

I don't care about people who hate America, no matter where they are from. I also don't care about people who break another country's laws while visiting there. In this case it appears I have good reason to double not care,

BTW how long did it take to free the UCLA basketball idiots who were stealing from stores in China?

Trump got them out in a week

[The Rebel]

Again, this is Russia--there's a good chance that the evidence was planted, or that no marijuana was found. (I.e., they just made it up.) Confessions mean nothing there--e.g., she was probably lied to that she'd get leniency if she signed off on it, and believed this lie. Again, a very naive person.

We likely won't know the truth unless and until Griner is released--and they likely won't release her even after her nine-year sentence is finished. Why would they?

She has never denied it was hers.

Which means ****. She's in a Russian prison, unable to communicate with those around her, likely locked in isolation much of the day, with limited (once in the first two months) access to the Embassy and likely almost no other access to the outside world (e.g., the correspondence with her wife is either forged or heavily censored).

Griner's likely terrified and/or in shock. As you would be--indeed, as would just about everyone talking tough now on this board. I can see most of you "confessing" to various "crimes" within hours. Doesn't make the charges true.

All I see is you making up a ton of excuses and scenarios about why she is scared, that does not change the fact that no where has she said that it wasn't hers. So why arrest her and not the other US citizens over the playing sports? Do you really think that the Russia Government thinks that is the biggest fish they could have gotten considering how many female soccer players and basketball players are over there. There is literally no proof other than your supposition that she didn't take the weed into the country, even her wife and family are not denying it is hers, so why would you assume differently?

[Salieri]

It still amazes me how many extreme far-right opinions are openly shared the moment a thread turns a bit political.