One of the problems with being the party of “Democracy,” as Democrats claim they are, is mob rule. Democracy is the tyranny of the 50.01%. That’s why we live in a Republic which Democrats hate. They’d rather be more like China (or Russia), and speaking of Russia, Britney Griner might be in for more trouble.
Griner was busted, arrested, tried, and convicted of violating the laws of Russia. I’m sure that’s a very selective process, unequally applied, with the same filters applied to progressives here in the United States. Laws are for little people if you have the right last name or party affiliation – and you have not embarrassed leadership. Hunter Biden comes to mind.
Brittney Griner is not little. She’s quite tall but” little” enough to Russia. And despite her disregard for the American flag or our national anthem after a career criminal died of a self-induced overdose in police custody, Russia decided to enforce a law. Traveling into the country with a hashish oil vape nestled in your designer luggage is illegal.
She was “tried,” convicted, and sentenced to nine years in some form of detention, which may now include a Russian labor camp. They are not nice places if the travel literature is to be believed. And no path to freedom appears forthcoming.
The party that promised to elevate our standing in the world is not presently on speaking terms with Vladimir Putin. We’re sort of kind of at war or on the brink of nuclear war with Russia, which predecessor Donald Trump, while often accused, never managed.
The likelihood of a conversation about a prisoner exchange seems thin.
Griner’s wife is despondent, but you have to admit it’s ironic.
Griner got a reputation for hating America for celebrating a drug criminal who overdosed, and here she is, a drug criminal, in the People’s Republic of Putinstan, at risk of detention in a forced labor camp.
I wouldn’t wish it on anybody, including someone dumb enough to bring hashish into Russia but wouldn’t it be ironic if they made her clean up debris from those “peaceful protests” put on by the Russian military in occupied Ukraine?
It’s just a thought.
