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Apply that same logic to anonymous posters you agree with. Lol, indeed.

How wise is it to dump buckets of ice water, with ice cubes, onto cyclists along the highway while traveling in your pickup at 100/kmh? Hahahhahhahahhaaaa! Is funny! Bicycle man fall down in ditch! Ahahhahahaaaaaa!!!!!!!

Let's take the popular indictments of Russian and Chinese alleged "hackers" that is announced in loud, flashy pressers when Washington needs a win. It gets written up as though it were fact, that they're guilty, but we can't persecute because they're outside the country. What happens in the occasional cases when the malign actors actually show up for court? Delays, refusals to allow discovery, no evidence is provided on "national security" grounds. Then more delays, and the cases are eventually dropped. Quietly. Bigly, bigly quietly. It's all fluff.

It would have been an interesting followup story had the writer mentioned any of the history of the case. It's up to us to find out what actually happened. Assumption is this is something recent, that he was arrested in Thailand, possibly extradited. Too much detail missing. Had the journalist reached our level of google-fu, some of the background - like, you know, he was arrested on the charge two years ago, he's been held awaiting trial for two years, there were other interaction with the Chiang Mai consulate.........then it would have been more than a simple copy-paste of a DOJ press release.

Oh, goody. Talking points. What next...........links to articles with "Ukrainian officials say...."?

Slahi was subjected to sleep deprivation, isolation, temperature extremes, beatings and sexual humiliation at Guantánamo. In one documented incident, he was blindfolded and taken out to sea in a boat for a mock execution. Lt. Col Stuart Couch refused to prosecute Slahi in a Military Commission in 2003. He said that "Salahi's incriminating statements—the core of the government's case—had been taken through torture, rendering them inadmissible under U.S. and international law. (wiki) Despite Dick Cheney's protestations, torture is not an effective method of interrogating suspects. That's one of the first things you learn in henchman vocational training. It works in the movies, not in real life. In the real world, torture is done for the gratification of the inquisitor. So what are the options? Let the witch go so she can turn another innocent farmer into a newt?

Now do overseas military bases.

Point is that yet another random YouTube video is being used as "proof", kinda like the "tax stamp pimp" experts in videos claiming that US expats have to declare their US social security on Thai tax returns. Methinks "Economic Moron" was referring to the presenter in the video.

They always do. But they never prove it. They make an announcement, spread it amongst their trained journalists on call. It floats through the blogosphere being liked and shared, and brought up on message boards as a talking point. ........and then disappears, to be replaced by yet another

He flew to the US on his own volition, was arrested in Atlanta. Not a bright fellow. Wheels of justice turn slowly, two years in the court system is not out of the ordinary. He just pled guilty, there will be some more hearings and then sentencing. And then the appeals process begins.

Read the OP. He pled guilty and is awaiting sentencing, potentially 10 years.

"You can't take money out of China in RMB and get pounds or euros or dollars for it." ~some moron

AH, old news. He was arrested two years ago when he flew in to Atlanta. Expatriate Charged with Making Multiple Threats to Kill U.S. Senator and U.S. Marines Tuesday, May 30, 2023 RALEIGH , N.C. – Eric Charles Welton, an American citizen living in Thailand, was arrested last Thursday on a criminal complaint charging that he threatened a U.S. senator and members of their staff in September of 2021. He is also alleged to have made threats against U.S. Marines and others working the U.S. Consulate in Chiang Mai, Thailand, in late 2022. Welton was arrested at the Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport as he returned to the United States from overseas by FBI Charlotte and FBI Atlanta Special Agents. https://www.justice.gov/usao-ednc/pr/expatriate-charged-making-multiple-threats-kill-us-senator-and-us-marines

Yeah, sure. I could'a hit the "unsubscribe" button at the bottom of the email, or I could'a added the email address to my junk filter, but it just felt so much better to make death threats, y'know. Nothing to do with Trump: American living in Thailand threatened to kill Sen. Thom Tillis in 2021 Mostly peaceful: Welton also threatened to “mow down” the whole state of North Carolina, and made more intimidating calls to offices of other Republicans and GOP organizations. https://www.wbtv.com/2025/04/11/man-who-threatened-kill-us-senator-north-carolina-pleads-guilty/

That's a strange obsession to obsess about. No warning about dangerous selfies taken while driving drunk throwing bottles of water at pedestrians? No warnings about hazardous, life-threatening stunts taken for for likes and shares?

In other words, "Trust the Science"

China raises duties on US goods to 125%, calls Trump tariff hikes a 'joke' China raises additional duties on U.S. goods to 125% Beijing calls Trump's tariff increases 'a joke' China says it will not respond to any further U.S. tariff hikes China seeks to rally support among other trading partners No point in China raising tariffs any further. Raising tariffs won't cut imports from the US below zero. However it left the door open for Beijing to turn to other types of retaliation, reiterating that China would fight the U.S. to the end. https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-increase-tariffs-us-goods-125-up-84-finance-ministry-says-2025-04-11/ Well, Mr. President, the ball (made in Vietnam with China-sourced vinyl) is in your (mortgage foreclosure pending) court (built my illegal Mexican labor with Chinese construction materials)!

Fun fact: "enhanced interrogation" is a direct translation of "verschärfte Vernehmung," What's that? That was the term used in Heinrich Mueller's (Gestapo) memo laying out the procedures. Funny thing, Bush also had a memo that made it legal. It's a phrase that appears to have been concocted in 1937, to describe a form of torture that would leave no marks, and hence save the embarrassment pre-war Nazi officials were experiencing as their wounded torture victims ended up in court. Silly Nazis! Shouldn't hold trials.

The Coming Collapse of China is a book by Gordon G. Chang, published in 2001, in which he argued that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was the root cause of many of China's problems and would cause the country's collapse by 2011.

But the show trials were scheduled for sometime in the far future, well after the waterboardings and the broomstick anal rapings.

Is there a law that prevents a US president and anointed leader of the free world, not to mention a nobel peace prize recipient, from executively ordering the drone strike execution of American citizens without trial?

Funny all those North Koreans disappeared suddenly, and the alleged POW's are nowhere to be seen. Same with these two alleged Chinese. It'll be in all the papers, the Pentagon will be shocked, shocked I say, and will respond to questions with "we have seen reports", but nothing tangible. And when it fails to gain traction, it'll disappear like the Ghost of Kiev and the Martyrs of Snake Island. As to the non-Chinese speaking Chinese, shirley, you must admit Xi is an evil dictator, running an oppressive totalitarian regime, especially for the oppressed minorities under his boot. Why then would he send them to Western Russia where they can defect to the forces of light? Wouldn't it be better to save them for the anticipated invasion of Siberia?

Still nothing from the Chinese......... Assume they'll wait until half hour after the stock market opens on Monday for bigly effect.

I agree they blamed the Russians. As to the first part of your statement..........

Something seems off. I listened to the released video. Doesn't sound like a native Chinese speaker. Sounds more like someone reading off a couple google-translate phrases. Pronunciation was strange, and tones were incorrect. I'd suspect he was probably one of the "North Koreans" from Los Angeles they announced last month, repurposed for more effective propaganda. "Hey, Trump hates the Chinese. Let's just make him Chinese. They all look alike, anyway. Who's gonna know?"