Showing posts with label political prisoners. Show all posts
Showing posts with label political prisoners. Show all posts

Monday, April 19, 2010

Audio- Glenn Beck: There were "anywhere between 36,000 and 150,000 political prisoners" under Woodrow Wilson, Obama is following his "playbook"


/eye roll/ And believe it or not, this is not the craziest thing he's said today.

Saturday, August 15, 2009

Senator Jim Webb to leave Myanmar with convicted American


I'm liking this new fangled "diplomacy" thing the administration discovered, but I'm still not clear on why this guy was arrested.

WASHINGTON (AFP)– US Senator Jim Webb will fly out of Myanmar on Sunday with an American convicted to seven years imprisonment after securing his release from the military regime, Webb's office said in a statement Saturday.

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Webb, a Democrat who is close to US President Barack Obama, became the first US official to hold talks with junta leader Than Shwe and also held talks with detained democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi.

Webb said that the junta agreed to free US national John Yettaw, who was convicted along with Aung San Suu Kyi after the American swam uninvited to the Nobel laureate's lakeside home.

"Yettaw will be officially deported on Sunday morning," Webb's office said in the statement.

"Senator Webb will bring him out of the country on a military aircraft that is returning to Bangkok on Sunday afternoon," it said.

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