Empathy should be reserved for victims of unfortunate circumstances—not celebrities who think laws/rules don’t apply to them. If Griner is a victim of anything, it's her own inflated sense of importance. When you leave America, you leave American justice and are at the mercy of foreigners and their laws. People caught with illegal drugs in a foreign country are subject to the drug laws of that country, not those of the United States. Sentences range from fines to years of hard labor and even the death penalty. Griner knew she was visiting an authoritarian country with horrible jails, that was about to go to war against Ukraine and was threatening the US, and she broke the law of that country. She now claims it was an "accident" but even if you accept that excuse, it still wouldn't make it in our national interest to make her a cause celebre or trade some high value Russian prisoner for her. So many in the media and online are trying to make this about her race...
The Ken Padgett Blog
