Griner Is Home Now: Russia!

By Rich Kozlovich 

As I've noted in the past I belong to an eclectic e-mail group which discusses topics that range far and wide, daily, and often.  This was one of the topics,  VP Kamala Harris is slammed as a hypocrite for condemning Russia's 'wrongful detention' of cannabis smuggler Brittney Griner when SHE locked up a THOUSAND Californians for pot possession as state AG, Daily Mail (UK), by Melissa Koenig.  

What is it with the Daily Mail and the Brits with these really long titles for their articles?  Well, at any rate, the author goes on to say:  

Vice President Kamala Harris has been slammed online as a hypocrite after she condemned Russian officials for sentencing basketball star Brittney Griner to nine years in prison for drug smuggling. The WNBA star was found guilty on Thursday by a judge who rejected her claim she accidentally brought a marijuana pen into the country. Prosecutors had asked that she be jailed for nine-and-a-half years, six months less than the maximum of 10 years in prison. Her attorneys say they have ten days to appeal the verdict and sentencing, and that the typical sentence handed down for such a crime is six years....

Our Group shared our thoughts.  

 

Her sentence was no doubt per-ordained and very politically useful. Since Biden wants her back to appease Progressive pressure groups, it serves Russia's interests to give her a long sentence. Russia then has more leverage in any exchange negotiations.  I agree with those who say nine years is insane ... but at the same time, she deserves some punishment for doing what she did. She hates the United States and yet want us to save her now.

Let's face it, if "she" wasn't a black, lesbian sports celebrity, no one in America would know this was going on, or care, and the government would just shrug their shoulders.    And she's not been inappropriately criminalized by the Russians, she admitted she violated their drug laws claiming she didn't intend to break the law.  Really?  Does that mean she didn't know it was illegal to smuggle illegal drugs into Russia?  Who could possibly believe such an excuse? 

She thought her celebrity would allow her to get away with a lot of crap like they get away with in America with the backing of leftists in the media, Hollywood and the government.   And now she wants the country she despises to save her from a country she once called her "real home", or some such claim.  

Now this America hater says:

On July 4, Griner sent a letter to the White House appealing for her freedom directly to President Joe Biden. Griner wrote that she missed her wife, family and teammates, adding she spent the Fourth of July holiday thinking about the meaning of freedom.

Wow!  Did she had an epiphany?  Is it possibly she believes America isn't so bad after all?  Is this kind of like that old saying: There are no atheists in foxholes, so maybe, just maybe, there are no America haters in Russian jails?  One has to wonder just how terrible and racist America will look to Griner after nine years in a gulag, all the while no longer being treated like royalty and not being paid huge sums of money to play a kid's game?

How does someone so inconsequential become so important?  And the Biden administration wants this America hating pot head out so badly they're willing to trade her for a "convicted Russian arms dealer, aka 'Merchant of Death"', who can bring death, pain and suffering to untold numbers of innocent people.  Imagine that!  And to make it look as if it's all about justice and not political pandering to leftist loons, they want the Russians to throw in that ex-marine they imprisoned for spying.  The one they ignored all this time. 

As for the Russians, as corrupt as their "justice" system is, this is one time I applaud them.  

As for the Biden administration, they should keep up what they're doing, since the more they pander to these misfits the less anyone cares what they think, and the more despicable they look, so I applaud them also. 

• Joe Biden flexes his double standards, declares Brittney Griner prison sentence for cannabis ‘unacceptable’

Here's another thought.  

She's worth about five million supposedly, and she has "married" another woman, and so now I wonder who legally controls that five million?  And in nine years how much will be left?  And if her "wife" divorces her, what happens to that money? 

As for me, I don't care what happens to Griner or her money because if we ignore all the emotional clabber from the media and cut to the chase......she's guilty!  Imagine that!