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i spent a few minutes again cruising around the hall of mirrors that is net-infotainment on this---you know how it is, the same wire-service articles appear in a million places, each time announced as if there's something particular about this iteration of the same wire-service article...
anyway: it appears that the trial has been pushed back for a few days at least; laotian information ministry people are due in london on the 7th to see if there's a way out of this. information is obviously sketchy at this point from non-wire service sources, which is an interesting little window onto the lack of transparency about information on the net. but i digress.
at the same time, 650g of heroin is a pound and a half. while not an epic number, it isn't exactly trivial. in the states, she'd be facing 5-10 years manditory minimum for that amount.
and it appears that rules regarding searches in border areas are a little funny---alot of the rules that one would expect to hold inside a national boundary don't quite at border checkpoints. strange.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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