Date: Mon Dec 19 04:56:18 2005
From: jpole at jcpa.com (Jamie C. Pole)
Subject: [Clips] A small editorial about recent events.
	(fwd)


Well, some of the more recent ones were as follows:

1) Singapore, where the Immigration card has "Drug Traffickers will  
be put to death" in big red letters on the back.  When I was there,  
possession of chewing gum was also illegal, and categorized as a  
controlled substance.  By the way, you can be fined or jailed for  
having a pool of standing water where mosquitos might breed.

2) Russia, where the militia (like city-wide police - not Federal)  
routinely beat and torture innocent suspects regardless of the  
severity of their supposed crimes.  These same militia officers often  
pull over expensive cars in order to get the drivers to bribe them  
into not giving them a ticket for something they didn't even do.

3) Spain, where a Federal government investigator contested some of  
my forensic findings by stating "Si no existe la evidencia, la  
haremos para arriba. Cualquier manera, ?l es culpable." (Roughly,  
"Even if the evidence does not exist, we will make it up.  He is  
going to be found guilty either way.").  When the case went to court,  
that is exactly what they did.

There have been quite a few others, but those are some highlights...

Jamie


On Dec 18, 2005, at 10:41 PM, Dude VanWinkle wrote:
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>
> Which other countries have you lived in? What was your experience
> there that made you feel this way?

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