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Terrified US student, 21, breaks down in hysterics as he is sentenced to 15-years hard labor in a North Korean gulag for trying to steal a political banner
- Student Otto Warmbier, 21, was given 15 years hard labor in North Korea
- Warmbier stole a bannerĀ with a political slogan from his Pyongyang hotel
- He said a church group had asked him to bring back a ‘trophy’ from his trip
- Warmbier begged for forgiveness at a press conference in February
on the bright side, he will learn a new language!
Hmm, sounds like a nice place. Think I’ll go there for my next vacation. No, WTF would anyone want to go there?
Welcome to Socialism.
Too bad that kid is white. Otherwise 0bama would jet over there to give Kim Dung Uno a blowjob in exchange for the kids freedom.
Oh well
I have absolutely NO sympathy for this dumbass. He’s no child and stealing is stealing, plus anyone who voluntarily goes to a known extremely repressive communist country HAS to know that doing something this stupid WILL have severe consequences. Sorry about your low IQ, buddy, but you made your bed. Maybe you’ll survive and your experience will help you mature into an adult.
The U.S. State Department should do absolutely nothing more than the standard “Please give him back” and they shouldn’t agree to trade him for concessions or anything more than “thanks.”
What.The.Fack is any church group doing in a country where they tell you beforehand you WILL be arrested if you even possess a bible or try to practice your faith, whether alone or with a native. Are there no other places you can go or did you expect to be arrested? If so, why are you crying about it now and why should anyone give a damn? about your low IQ, buddy, but you made your bed. Maybe you’ll survive and your experience will help you mature into an adult.
The U.S. State Department should do absolutely nothing more than the standard “Please give him back” and they shouldn’t agree to trade him for concessions or anything more than “thanks.”
What.The.Fack is any church group doing in a country where they tell you beforehand you WILL be arrested if you even possess a bible or try to practice your faith, whether alone or with a native. Are there no other places you can go or did you expect to be arrested? If so, why are you crying about it now and why should anyone give a damn?
Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time!
Nobody gives a damn about Warm Beer.
Oh but he was stealing for a church!
The only way Obama is gonna care about this is if the kid comes out as both muslim and gay. A straight white American? He couldn’t care less.
A cautionary note to student imbeciles in our country: Stay out of savage animal countries. There is nothing to see and nothing to learn. Savage animals act like savage animals no matter what your professors tell you.
Hey, at least in 15 years his debt will be paid unlike the life sentence we US taxpayers have here at home.
Maybe they’ll let him hang the banner in his cell.
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Send him back strapped to one of the new fangled inter-continental ballistic missiles DaPRiKs have.
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You shall not steal is number 8 on the top ten list,
He will have 5,479 days to ponder the importance of living by that rule. And the paradox that the rule doesn’t apply to politicians and mobs, aka majority vote.
Good Riddance to another Bernie supporter. I would like to personally thank North Korea for helping the U.S. clean up it’s gene pool. Maybe we should start some sort of ‘U.S. Socialist for North Korean Christians’ student exchange program.
He should turn against the U.S. so obummer will trade him for a hand fulla trained killers who want to destroy America.
Fool. If he’d have ripped a Trump banner off a Chicago hotel wall, he’d have a scholarship now.
He went to NK a young man and will come home an old man.
Or a dead man.
The guy tried to steal something and got caught. He deserves to be punished. But anybody who believes that 15 years at hard labor in a country where ordinary people regularly starve or freeze to death is morally no better than the NORK communist regime that sentenced him. Those who have commented that he deserves this kind of punishment for the crime he committed ought to be ashamed.
Whaaaa!
What a moron.
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@Blink: It appears as though the Koreans follow the 10 commandments and execute their punishment accordingly. I think the kid just escaped a shooting squad.
Fifteen years is a cruel and unjust sentence for the crime. He can be glad he wasn’t caught in an area controlled by ISIS, it would have cost him his head.
I’m not saying this is the case here, but universities, colleges and specific professors should be named in lawsuits for having inculcated the idea that kids can go to these countries under the shield of U.S. law.
Uncle Al,
Rarely do we get what we “deserve.” And referring to a communist shit-hole like North Korea, the word means absolutely nothing.
If you swim in the septic tank, you’re gonna come out smelling like shit … I guarantee it.
If you decide to play in an outhouse,don’t be surprised when you get shit on your hands.
Taking responsibility for your actions is expected wherever you are.
But, 15 years incarceration is excessive, no doubt because he is #1 A US Citizen; #2 A Christian; and #3 He is in a oppressive Totalitarian regime.
In comparison, in Africa, the middle east and elsewhere Christians are butchered and raped just for being a Christian.
The Message is sent, but nobody does anything about it.
i am with uncle al
the kid (yes 21, but a kid) made a bad bad call, could have been my kid, let me punish him
but screw noko and their freak leader
if we had leadership in this country, we wouldn’t be shit upon daily by our enemies
15 fucking years, they are slamming the us, not just the kid
screw noko, the sooner the launch and turn our light green, the better
It’s evident that the U.N won’t send Hans ‘Brix’ to get him out, or even write a strongly worded letter, so all the kids has left is Team America. I’ll bet Gary’s getting re-valmorphanized right now to go in.
Takes me way back …but needs an update:
“When you’re busted for dumb over there, you’re in for the hassle of your life.”
Proof that, for the most part, young liberals are mislead. It’s too bad this young liberal has to find out the hard way what communism is all about. I feel bad for him.
Note to all churches. Don’t send clueless people into dangerous places.
Seem it a few times.
Kim Jong-un appears to be as evil and sadistic as Mao.
Otto may have been forced into a slow death sentence rather than the mercy of a quick one.
What It’s Like Inside A North Korean Prison (2:18)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdM6kQICeDA .
Poor bastard. I was 21 and stupid once. Luckily I grown ups around to guide me.
You expect kids in the U.S. to act like retards. They’ve been “taught” in our public schools. In N. Korea, they’d expect him to be properly indoctrinated. Of course, if it had been about “Climate Change”, this doofus would be all over that.
Stupid fuck! What the hell was he thinking?
YOU’D BE CONFUSED TOO IF YOUR NAME SPELLS THE SAME FORWARD AND BACKWARD, AND BEING FROM WYOMING, OHIO!
During a TV interview, Draco, the Tyrant of Athens, was asked: “Why are all transgressions of the law punished by Death? I mean, is it fair that a pick-pocket and a Murderer receive the same penalty?”
Draco thought for a moment, and then replied: “No, it’s NOT fair, but I couldn’t think of anything worse.”
I wonder what the young man’s political leanings were, and his voting record up to now?
Seriously, do you think a republican / conservative would;
1) Go to a repressive communist country for ANY reason, no matter how pure the motive?
2) Would steal something, anything, especially something so small and petty – and NOT expect to be punished for that theft?
I hope he survives, and that when Trump or Cruz become President next year, that the newly revised State Department will be able to get this young man home. (sigh)
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@Uncle Al – I may be a heartless bastard and I agree the sentence was harsh, but they could have marched him outside and put a bullet through his ear. Age 21 is an adult everywhere. He is not a child, he is responsible for his own actions. Life is hard and it’s even harder when you’re stupid. Now the norks have a bargaining chip, so this asshat’s actions have hurt you and me.
If the tour organizers didn’t warn every single person in their charge about the consequences of stupidity, they’re criminally culpable too but I’d bet they not only warned them, they also got liability releases, which this ‘child’ was fully legally capable of signing. This little boy probably didn’t believe someone would actually hold him responsible. What are the odds he’s a leftist snowflake and wants his safe space, not to mention his mommy?
My replies have been eaten twice so I’ll keep it short and hope this one makes it.
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@Uncle Al – 21 is adult everywhere and though the sentence is harsh, they could have just as easily shot him. He’s responsible for his own actions and if he didn’t think he’d have to pay the penalty in frackin’ NORTH KOREA, he should have stayed home.
@Burner – I have a Pi2 but Raspian isn’t powerful enough for everyday unless they’ve improved it a LOT in the last few months, but it ain’t gonna fix slow internet with tons of ads.
Sorry, I thought you had problems with thru-put. Carry on then with multimedia internet. Whatever that is.
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OK 15 years hard labor is harsh. But NK is a harsh country, with harsh laws, a maniac for a leader who is harsh on his own subordinates. Generals and Admirals disappear. People disappear over night. Who the fuck is this 21 year old ignorant asshole to expect anything less when he and his “church” visit this shithole?
Here in this horrible racist country, America, burning Old Glory, stomping on her, desecrating her is called freedom of expression.
Mexicans, blacks, radicals, muslims do it all the time with impunity.
Bill Ayers stood on Old Glory and declared that he wished he had blown up more buildings. And his murdering bitch wife is now a professor at NYU and Columbia. He, Ayers, helped Obama become President, even wrote a book for him.
We live in two different worlds and the left’s disdain for America
boggles my mind. A guy attacks Trump,is freed by a judge, and is interviewed on CNN as a fucking hero.
I think a little NK justice here would help “straighten some minds out.”
Desecrate the flag, attack a presidential candidate, and do minimum six months lifting weights, watching TV and getting corn-holed.
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Even if they’re going to Russia most wealthy Americans purchase ‘ransom insurance’. I guess you can’t do that for Nork. Next time try traveling nude to Medina. I mean it’s all about getting noticed on Twitter, right?
I’m kinda wondering whut his parent(s) taught him. It certainly wasn’t common sense!
Tough shit. Don’t interfere.