North Korea Sentences U.S. Student to 15 Years Hard Labor

Re:North Korea Sentences U.S. Student to 15 Years Hard Labor by jsnk on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @01:44AM (#11295305)

I thought people locked up at gitmo are terrorists who wanted to kill people. This guy on the other hand tried to steal a poster. I can't even fathom how you are trying to draw parallel between the two cases.

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Re:North Korea Sentences U.S. Student to 15 Years Hard Labor by deciplex on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @01:52AM (#11295324)

> I thought people locked up at gitmo are terrorists who wanted to kill people.

If only there were some kind of open forum, or even a closed forum where the records of same are made public, where the government could present evidence in favor of this assertion, and the accused could defend themselves against it in kind. We could even mandate that they be set free, should they prove themselves innocent, or that they be required to serve a defined prison term, should they not.

What a more just world we might live in, where such privileges were granted to everyone, regardless of how grievous the crimes they were accused of might be. Oh well.

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Re:North Korea Sentences U.S. Student to 15 Years Hard Labor by lewisl9029 on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @04:09AM (#11295747)

Exactly. For all we know about the people in Gitmo and the legitimacy of their sentences, they might as well be a bunch of very unlucky poster thieves.

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