British citizens Samantha Orobator faces possible execution for drug trafficking in Laos after being arrested with roughly half of kilogram. To add to the outcry, Orobator is reportedly pregnant with a child that she conceived while in prison.
She will face potential death by firing squad due to the amount of drugs that she was carrying
Orobator was born in Nigeria and moved to London at age of eight.
For the full story, click here.
Anonyyours:
I don’t think that other addicts are running to the police for being assaulted by one of their own.
But the reason that I posed the question I did about rape or consensual contact,is from what I have seen with programs such as being “locked up abroad” shows that the prison system is TOTALLY different from here in the states.
And it also shows the lack of representation of consul in any other country.
FORMER DEM 1, May 4, 2009 at 11:14 pm
Also, prisons are filled with real criminals and not drug addicts. Well, maybe they are addicts, but they got put in prison for attacking OTHER Addicts over drugs.
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That may be true for the Netherlands but in the US the number of people in Prison for Drugs and Substance Abuse is 3 to 1, and a number of the Hard Criminals under lying offense is substance abuse as well.
eniobob,
That is the question? Rape! How can this be consensual while in Prison, well now unless its big Bubba then the world is his a consensuality is just a technicality.
If you will, the article states that the British do not have a consular in that region and have sent someone over. So Rape may be the question and death as well for possession of 1.1 pounds of heroin. As was stated above that seems a little over the edge.
The drug story is pretty clear,what I see missing here is the comments on the pregnancy.
Since it does say that it happened in prison,was it rape?
Was it consensual?
That should be a question all by it self.
The only wack jobs are the people who have insisted on pursuing the so-called “War on Drugs” long after they realized that it was a complete failure. We apparently feel a need to cater to the absurdities of people like Former Dem, who apparently go berserk at the idea that we will not be able to stop the trade in a product demanded by millions of people. Why is it that social conservatives consumed with the “sin” of drug use refuse to accept that the same economic laws they revere in all other contexts also apply to illicit drugs? If drug possession were decriminalized, we would save billions of dollars in useless enforcement efforts, violent street crime would plunge to unheard of levels, resources could be redirected to education and rehabilitation and we would affirm that principle that Republicans only give lip service to, the responsibility of the individual to make decisions about his life.
Any of you wack jobs that want to legalize drugs needs to go visit the Netherlands. Don’t stray off the beaten path, and watch out for the needles laying in the streets and don’t walk barefoot on the grass or you will end up with 3 or 4 contaminated needles sticking you in the feet.
But hey, it’s not all bad; so many people lay around all day stoned that it is pretty easy to find a job if you stay off the drugs. Also, prisons are filled with real criminals and not drug addicts. Well, maybe they are addicts, but they got put in prison for attacking OTHER Addicts over drugs.
I know exactly who has the powder v the rock, you’re spot-on there AY. I read a day or so ago that the DOJ was looking to remedy the disparity and that’s long overdue. I’ll keep my fingers crossed.
Lottakatz,
Under the Federal Sentencing Guideline and others. You can have a 5 grams of crack and get the same sentence for 500 grams of powder. Guess who has which race has the most options to possess 500 grams?
The ‘war on drugs’ in America is racial discrimination on the hoof. It’s also expensive and draws civil and military resources away from other criminal and national problems that need our attention. This is the most incarcerated population in the world and a substantial number of those incarcerated are incarcerated for drug related crimes. Something on the order of 100,000 arrests a year for weed alone. A sane drug policy would probably save enough money to pay for a universal health care program. The DEA has over a hundred planes and helicopters. It’s an Air Force unto itself. A civilized society would deal with drug use as a medical problem and laugh at the notion of making a plant you can grow in a window box illegal.
Calling people names isn’t an argument, it just displays a failure of home-training. Srsly. It’s uncool. No one here deserves that. Knock it off if you want to be taken seriously.
http://www.sentencingproject.org/Admin/Documents/publications/dp_drugarrestreport.pdf
Former Dem:
“LOL! Only on a left wing nut blog would drug smugglers be praised!”
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I think you meant, “Only in an American-style democracy would an accused drug smuggler’s (or one lawfully convicted one’s) rights be protected so the rest of us could sleep at night knowing ours would be too.”
LOL! Only on a left wing nut blog would drug smugglers be praised!
YOU FRIGGIN MORONS!
Bron98,
I was going to respond to him in pretty much the same manner. A hearty LOL
Former Dem:
she may have been smuggling to be able to eat. I don’t think someone wants to drive a Ferrari that badly. But you will go to extreme measures to put food on your table.
you are a piece of ………….
I will let what little conscience you have fill in the blank
FORMER DEM 1, May 4, 2009 at 5:59 pm
“Anonymously yours thinks it ok for this woman to smuggle drugs and ruin the lives of thousands all so she can drive a Ferrari.
Anonymously Yours 1, May 4, 2009 at 1:41 pm”
You will be happy to note in the US Senate they are working on changing some of the drug laws as we speak.
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Well that is your interpretation on this matter. Please tell me sir, how you arrived at this conclusion? I am interested.
Anonymously yours thinks it ok for this woman to smuggle drugs and ruin the lives of thousands all so she can drive a Ferrari.
Poor baby, the baby in the womb, not this despicable person they arrested.
I guess she never saw Midnight Express, eh?
that is a bit over the top. poor girl.
The full story link says this woman was arrested and imprisoned in Laos, not Thailand. Whichever, Southeast Asian countries have even more insane drug laws than the U.S. How stupid does someone have to be to be carrying around over a pound of heroin in that part of the world anyway?
You will be happy to note in the US Senate they are working on changing some of the drug laws as we speak.
The US war on drugs has long tentacles and yet is insane in its’ conception.