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since there's no legal institutions to enforce human rights law or agreements that operate at a transnational level, this is a political question not an ethical or procedural one. it sucks, but that's reality. and it appears in this case that there's some movement happening that at least in principle may open onto an outcome that is not the one which appears inevitable. but if that works out, it'll happen because the laotian government gets embarrassed into it, and the centre of that embarrassment is the impression--if not the fact--that she was raped in prison. but the information is spotty-to-fucked up, and if you've tried to piece much together that goes past the wire service articles, you'd know this.
the problem with the thread is that it's premise is basically colonialist---it's not that the situation is happening to this woman really--it's that its happening where it's happening, and in that there's some strange sense of violation of a hierarchy (who the hell are the laotians to do this to a uk citizen)...
i oppose capital punishment and think that its usage in a drug case is absurd...
at the same time, 1.5 pounds is A LOT of heroin.
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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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