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so wait. from what i gather, the trial hasn't happened yet--it's scheduled to happen in the next day or two. there are appearances of procedural problems, but its hard to say from what i am reading on this whether that amounts to saying that the laotian system isnt like the british. there's another question concerning capital punlshment given the uk's rejection of this barbaric action--this leads to human rights problems in principle---but what forum is there that this sort of question can be heard in?
at this level, then, we have yet another example of the stupidity of nation-states of the equation of sovereignty with nation-states.
there's a terrible reputation associated with the prison she's been held in but it isn't obvious that she's been treated badly simply because there's apparently been no contact from her until quite recently.
so it isn't yet obvious what's going to happen--at least that's the impression i have gathered from reading around on this situation.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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