Posted on 07/18/2004 8:55:26 PM PDT by GATOR NAVY
I fail to see a problem. This is hardly the ChiCom version of a slave labor prison.
“You had no choice. If you refused to work, they put you in what we called a chill box, a little cell with nothing in it, and they forced you to sit rigidly all day at a desk until it was time to eat and sleep."
One would have to work very hard to hand the anti-US activists a bigger stick with which to beat us.
It is overflowing with irony that we deferred to Okinawan "justice" and it came as a sentence more in line with check kiting.
I would have proposed early release for the trio of rapists to be filmed by 16 video cameras ground-based and helicopter-borne.
From an altitude of 2,000 they would be released.
That there are no parachutes is a translation issue:
In order that the rest of the Marines and Okinawans get the message, it is being transmitted in the clear:
This excrement does not fly.
This guys story just breaks my heart. < /sarcasm>
After watching Midnight Express, I think we should outsource our prison requirements - offshore - to Turkey.
“It is my firm opinion that not only is this practice morally reprehensible, but it is also in direct contravention of international agreements on to which Japan and most other industrialized and civilized nations have signed,” Ackerman said in a statement made June 10, 1994.
I see no reason why the taxpayers should have to pay for his stay there. Let them work it off, it is the very model of a real prison.
No cuddling either.
Hey, if you could tell us how to contact the japanese media we' appreciate it. I would love to tell them that we don't support shyster lawyers and criminals. Most Americans think this guy got off way too easy.
Yep. Virtually the entire population of Japan would happily do so. I remember how angry the Japanese, esp. the Okinawans, were when this happened.
I just wish these bastards had gotten a longer sentence. OTOH, Japanese prisons are NOT nice places. What the h*ll did these fools expect from a Japanese prison? Something like an American prison with cable TV, a library, and a good gym?
Abduction and rape of a minor under 14 is worth 25 to life in the states...geez what a jerk this guy is. He's lucky that all he had to do was make car parts.In an American jail the "r" behind his name would have hom doing other things
No tears for this scum. He should have been taken out back and shot.
Section. 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Section. 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
I read that as saying we can pretty much make convicts work and work for nothing.
As it should be.
Why? If you read it you'd know that it's pretty liberal.We used to call it Stars and Lies and I'm sure it's still called that.
True enough. I wouldn't wipe with it for fear of catching something. Though I gotta say that for sheer malcontent, riling-up, "I'M GETTING SCREWED!!!" power, Navy Times has it beat hands-down.
How's retired life, EWC? I'm getting closer all the time (just went over 11 years a few weeks ago). Now if I could just make board...
R, FC1
Yes, he will vote for jfk, and is probably a poll worker under the table. I remember those clowns claiming their victim status when the incident happened. They got off too, easy and should have at least received life in prison. The death penalty would actually be my preference for those scum. Scary Kerry has felt their pain!!! Bush/Cheney 2004
"“Japan is in gross violation of international law by forcing prisoners to work for commercial companies,”"
Wait a moment while I practice my concerned look...
Hell, I think they should make more prisons in the US like that, perhaps then there wouldn't be so much of an overcrowding problem.
Rape is a gross violation of human rights....putting cell phones together as part of a punnishment is an injustice to the victim.
Real nice. I doubt you'll find any more rapists or other violent criminals on the Democratic convention floor than you will on the Republican convention floor. Just because someone disagrees with you politically doesn't make them the Anti-christ.
What the Dems were unhappy about in Florida were the number of non-felons who were removed from the voting rolls because they were improperly identified as felons using a database that hadn't been audited before it was used. Denial of a non-felon's right to vote wasn't a conservative value the last time I checked.
Really? Bill Clinton and Teddy Kennedy are both scheduled to speak at said Democratic Convention. If you hear of any rapists and/or murderers doing the same thing at the Republican Convention, do let me know.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.