Reply to How does this happen? Why on earth did this guy have to be in N. Korea?

Forum Index » Political Discussion

Reply to "How does this happen? Why on earth did this guy have to be in N. Korea?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]Other countries get to make their own rules inside their own borders. You can think those rules are stupid, horrible, immoral, or ridiculous. That's fine. But if you make the choice to still go to that country anyway, you have to follow their rules. There is no reason the US government should have to try to swoop in like Superman, expending diplomatic and political capital, every time some moron refuses to acknowledge that they aren't in Kansas anymore and gets in entirely predictable trouble for ignoring another country's law that they should have followed.

I have zero trouble believing that this guy swiped a sign from the hotel. That sounds like exactly the kind of thing an idiot 25-year-old tourist would do. Do I believe it's a vast church conspiracy like the North Koreans claim, no, but taking the sign? Sure, I believe he did that. The North Korean playbook is to take an extremely minor offense and blow it up into an international incident, not manufacture an offense out of wholecloth.

If you go to North Korea, you had better be ready to bow to statues and not touch anything you aren't told to. If you go to the UAE, don't cry and whine when you're arrested for drinking or going into a hotel room with someone you're not married to. If you're in Germany, don't shout about your First Amendment rights when you get arrested for taking a selfie of doing the Nazi salute in front of the Brandenburg Gate. Other countries make their own laws and you don't have the right to ignore them or treat them lightly because you're an American. Don't like it? Don't go.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics