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Originally posted by Ronin1069:
... I feel bad for her.

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Sorry, but, with the way she's dissed our country, the country that went a long way toward enabling her to have what she had, I simply cannot muster one iota of sympathy for her in her current plight.

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Originally posted by ridgerat:

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Sorry, but, with the way she's dissed our country, the country that went a long way toward enabling her to have what she had, I simply cannot muster one iota of sympathy for her in her current plight.

And when she is released, whether it's a few months from now or the full nine years, she will diss the US for not having done enough to get her released sooner.

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Originally posted by ridgerat:

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Sorry, but, with the way she's dissed our country, the country that went a long way toward enabling her to have what she had, I simply cannot muster one iota of sympathy for her in her current plight.

And when she is released, whether it's a few months from now or the full nine years, she will diss the US for not having done enough to get her released sooner.

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think SJL is retiring

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Originally posted by stiab:
I suggest (insert proper pronoun here) notify Russia of (pronoun) desire to defect to that county, and to play basketball on their Olympic Team (male or female team, does not matter), and I suspect she would be released very quickly, and soon thereafter be allowed to join the Russian team(s). That way she could accomplish two of her objectives: exhibit her hate of USA, and get released from prison.

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Sheila Jackson Lee. The other moron in the thread title.

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Originally posted by flashguy:
I think SJL is retiring. Texas will at last be rid of one of its idiots.

flashguy

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LONDON, Nov 3, (Reuters) - Tedious manual work, poor hygiene and lack of access to medical care - such are the conditions awaiting U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner in a Russian penal colony after she lost her appeal last week against a nine-year drug sentence.

It's a world familiar to Maria Alyokhina, a member of feminist art ensemble Pussy Riot who spent nearly two years as an inmate for her part in a 2012 punk protest in a Moscow cathedral against President Vladimir Putin.

The first thing to understand, Alyokhina said in an interview, is that a penal colony is no ordinary prison.

"This is not a building with cells. This looks like a strange village, like a Gulag labour camp," she said, referring to the vast penal network established by Soviet dictator Josef Stalin to isolate and crush inmates.

"It actually is a labour camp because by law all the prisoners should work. The quite cynical thing about this work is that prisoners usually sew police uniforms and uniforms for the Russian army, almost without salary."